>When it comes to human ?ingenuity? anything is possible. What is it the ability to follow instructions, or fear of computers that is the problem? A system created back in the early 1980?s was nearing delivery to the customer. The instruction manual was almost completed when I got to the point about ?Insert floppy disk number 1 into the disk drive? Suddenly I realized there were 16 different ways to do this. Don?t worry ? the client only figured out 8 of the 16!

The real trouble comes at "insert disk 2" - I've seen a guy (an engineer!) about ten years ago sticking a second 5.25 into the drive, without taking the first one out.

Another case was a 20-mile trip just to twist one arm. The baby-AT case was set upright on the desk, to the right of the monitor, and later moved to the left. The guy simply kept the floppy with the label side facing the monitor... applied symmetry when translation was the case.

And I personally admit having formatted a slice of cheese. Well, it's not polite to eat unformatted cheese, right?