Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me? It’s The Register ’s Monday column in which we celebrate your SNAFUS and rejoice in your recoveries.

This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Steven”.

“One of my first jobs in the 1980s was as a training instructor at the headquarters of CAD CAM company Intergraph,” Steven wrote.

At the time, Intergraph sold its own customized versions of long-dead hardware vendor DEC’s mighty VAX servers.

The training system Steven showed to students lived in a cabinet alongside a tape storage system.

“I was demonstrating to wannabee Sysadmins how to power the tape drive on and off,” which is pretty innocuous,” Steven admitted. “Unfortunately, in a triumph of ergonomic design, the VAX power button and the tape power button were located right next to each othe

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