Reply to post: Re: Poorly located switches.

Remember the Dutch kid who stuck his finger in a dam to save the village? Here's the IT equivalent

IT's getting kinda boring

Re: Poorly located switches.

Or the ICL Operator stations with the reset switch (simple toggle switch with a long enough toggle) conveniently placed in the middle of the front panel where anyone can catch it (saw that a couple of times - one hard reset took out an ICL2974 for a few days).

Or on the 3930 when that came out, and it had small toggle switches to place the disks in read-only mode. Saw someone brush past loaded down with stuff and seen the toggle switch flick over. ICL eventually came out with a plastic cover to guard the switches.

<wipes nostalgic tear from eye>

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