Press any key to continue......
Yes, it happened to me...
Much hard work during the week - Friday morning install a new test system on the shop floor.
Run a sample unit - fine - had over to production & retire to the pub to celebrate.
One extended lunch time later, we rolled back from the pub to a complete production stop.
Not only the new system was down but all the others (that had been working happily for weeks) were down.
The new operator had come to the 'Press any key to continue' prompt and, you've guessed it, couldn't find the 'ANY' key, so stopped - worried that she might do something wrong. She asked an experienced operator on one of the other systems - who suddenly became afraid that she'd been doing it wrong for the past couple of weeks, and this rippled down the whole line - stopping all the systems.
I took a marker pen and wrote "ANY" on the side of the space bar. Problem solved.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
