My favourite accidentally deleting things story, which I'm sure you will agree is the platonic ideal of a dull historic IT anecdote (I have probably told you all this one before, too)...
At some point in the 80s we were using both PCs and some strange things called Sages running CP/M 68K.
The Sages were configured with the hard disk partitioned into 2MB chunks (the limit) with
A = operating system and toold
B = source code
C / D / E etc. = customer data or more copies of the source code
P = floppy drive
(the idea being that the number of had disk partitions depended on the size of the hard disk but P was always the floppy)
So in summary
PC = A: floppy C: system
Sage = P: floppy A: system
Now, a moment's inattention on a Sage, you format the floppy FORMAT A: - bye bye OS and tools.
The other fun property of Sages was hard disks very averse to the computer being dropped.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
