Screw drive types..........and they STILL make slotted????

I used to work at a local industrial supply company and was familiar with the various types of screw drives that were available. At the time (early 1980's), I only had to know the basic drives to know what the customers were looking for. Lets see.........there was slotted or straight, Phillips, hex or Allen, square or Robertson, spanner and clutch.

There were also the tamper-proof or security screws. I personally don't know of anyone who ever installed this type of screw. I think there was a widely held belief of an elite troop of Marines who snuck in and installed these. They're the ones with the little pegs inside the holes, for which you never have a screwdriver and the ever present and often cursed "one way" screws. If you ever had to remove one of these, you know what I'm talking about. Once installed, these little b@$+&#*s had to be drilled out. Yes, there was a tool available that was supposed to remove them, but as far as I know, anyone who tried to use it, was left with a puncture wound, blood, sweat and tears.

Then there is of course all of the sizes available in each of the types of drives. From what seems to be size 0000 where you need a magnifying glass just to hit the slot, all the way up to size 4XL that requires help to hold the screwdriver.

DAMN the engineers and bring out the bandaides.

Now there seems to be what can only be described as an endless, cold-hearted and yet creative co-conspiracy thought up by someone at Area 51 with alien technology and the diabolical manufacturers of fasteners and screwdrivers. I'll bet the crew down at Kleindorfers Hardware knows what I'm talking about!  Just look at the chart of known screw drives available today and yes I mean known. I'm sure that there are many types out there we don't know about, yet. A perfect example being the new Pentalobe, crapple or "sphincter" screws that Apple computer has started using. I'm told if you send them your iPhone4 to be repaired, it will now be returned with the new harder-to-remove screws.

Couldn't you at least made it......you know....apple shaped?
                                                                  

Thank You Steve Jobs !!

Having said that, the only real nemesis I still run into, is the ever present one straight or slotted screw amongst the two dozen phillips screws I'm trying to remove and someone before me has already turned it into a "one-way" screw !?!?
Check out this link!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives