Okay, how about this? "Plug in the cable face-up." It's just less accurate for edge cases like tower PCs with slots facing the side. And fair's fair, I hadn't

Okay, how about this? "Plug in the cable face-up." It's just less accurate for edge cases like tower PCs with slots facing the side. And fair's fair, I hadn't thought about how annoying it is when you have to reach behind a machine to plug something into one of those. But then again, it's usually hard to plug things together when you can't see them. I dunno, it just really doesn't seem like an issue in practice.