> actually read the manual just to figure out which cable
> plugs into which socket. ;-)

Right after I got out of high school and I was working at the school's 
computer center for the summer, one of the new teachers took a TRS-80 home 
to learn about it.  An hour after closing, the phone rings.

"Is it supposed to smoke when I plug it in?"
"What? No, of course not."
"Should I unplug it then?"
"YES!"

The guy plugged the power supply into the video output socket.

Granted, the TRS-80 used the same DIN plug for power, monitor, and ... 
whatever the third thing was that plugged in. But yah, reading the 
instructions would have helped back before they figured out people don't 
read instructions and thus need a different connector shape for each cable.

 > probably in favor of the pointy-clicky method of deleting directories

It's all part of the DEL command now. In particular, DEL /S

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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