When I was in college, they were just starting with teaching English composition classes on word processors. At that time, there was an educational version of Word Perfect on a single 5.25" floppy disk. I was given the opportunity to work in these classes as a tutor/troubleshooter to free the prof of that burden. He could get on with teaching English while I handled any technical issues that arose.
And this was before the advent of an HD in every PC. These were your basic XTs with dual 5.25" floppy drives. And the first day of class, the students were given the run-down about the differences between the boot disk, the program disk, and the data disk, and how to use each one.
During one of the classes, the prof had some assignments that he wanted me to copy to each student's data disk. So I sat there at an unused workstation, swapping and copying, while he went on to teach the class. The next day, these two women came up to me and said, "Our assignments are gone." So I checked out the disk, and there was nothing there. So I recopied the assignments.
The next day, they came to me and said, "Our assignments are gone again." Being very confused, I looked at their disks again, and yes, the assignments were gone again. But I had no idea why. So I recopied the assignments.
The next day, "Our assignments are gone again." Ok, something is definitely going on here, and I have to figure out what it is. And it's always better to start from the beginning, right?
So I ask them, "All right, when you first sit down at the computer, what do you do, step by step?"
"We put our boot disk in the A drive."
"OK"
"We put our data disk in the B drive."
"OK"
"We type in 'format B:' . . ."
*facepalm* |
