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In the old days I'd tell aholes to C:> format c [enter]
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No joke when I was a kid my brother who is two years younger than me was up in my father's office playing on his computer. He was always curious about computers. He quietly walked halfway down the stairs and my dad was sitting in his recliner reading the paper and my brother says, 'Daddy, what does format c mean?'
I have never seen my father move so fast, he was up the stairs in a second. My brother had formatted my father's entire computer. My brother was 5 or 6 at the time and was just kind of typing random things on the keyboard to see what they did. This was back in the days of DOS 2.x days so early to mid 1980s.
My dad never actually even got mad at him for doing it because he had backed it all up. Hell his backups even had backups. I remember afteremy dad passed away we were cleaning his office out and found all kinds of floppy disks with old out of date and obsolete operating systems on them.