Are office people really that, umm shall we say...slow?

... and for those without PC experience. We had a newbie in one of the college labs who was trying to install a second printer on some of the OLD (8088, 80286) machines. But the "other" DB25 connector on the back of the machines was MALE, ... So she connected them with gender changers. [for non-PC people: IBM used FEMALE DB25 for parallel printer, and MALE DB25 for serial] Back a long time ago, one of our instructors damaged the input circuitry of of several giant classroom CGA compatible monitors by plugging them into the Microsoft Bus [green-eyed] Mouse ports Is the color coding standardized? Or will we have incorrect connections made by people who follow the color code instead of other cues? -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com