"Instructions" joke

At my first real world programming position, we sent out updates on 8" floppy disks. To save time/energy, we put the following on the disk labels: Insert disk in drive Press ^C (control-C) type A: INSTALL We got a call from one of our users (um, "customers"). She said, "I don't know what to do. I inserted the disk in the drive, but then I forgot what the next step was." This was the turning point for me. I finally realized just how foolproof things needed to be. (We sent out paper copies with instructions after that.)

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