Re: Warning!
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:09:02 GMT, ppu...@damnthatspam.chello.nl (Peter Punk) wrote: >On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:51:31 +0300, Ville Jouppi <vjo...@sci.fi> provoked the >following text: >>>That's the whole problem, it _doesn't_ make sense. If you hotplug a keyboard you >>>run the risk to blow up the keyboard controller and that would mean that the >>>motherboard had to be replaced. >>There is always the risk, but I'm only concerned about PS/2-devices >>being hot-plugged. > >Why is it that you are concerned about hotplugging a PS/2 device, but not about >hotplugging a keyboard? An AT keyboard and a PS/2 keyboard are essentially the same, but I've heard of broken PS/2 mouse ports after hot plugging. Haven't had that happen to me either.. :-) >>Never had an AT-keyboard blow by hot-plugging (nor an Amiga one for >>the record) > >Have you ever tried hotplugging a keyboard on an XT? It's quite an experience >(on the Phillips XT's at least...) Hmm, I must say I haven't.. Only on ATs and up. The machine just beeps horribly, but nothing else. -- CBM, PEZ, and TI-calc nut, Scout, Glider pilot, Helpdesk-person Email: vjo...@sci.fi, URL: http://www.sci.fi/~vjouppi/ GSM: +358-40-5679999, IRCNet: Jope "I see", said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,88827fb15a6e2736 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Ville Jouppi <vjo...@sci.fi> Subject: Re: Warning! Date: 2000/10/01 Message-ID: <6FD...@4ax.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 676215990 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8pim57$li0$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk> <Pin...@joxer.acsu.buffalo.edu> <j06...@4ax.com> <781...@4ax.com> <WSH...@4ax.com> <5lq...@4ax.com> <dpDRORF8DzM1u7hntFo1FqNkq=Z...@4ax.com> <352...@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: new...@saunalahti.fi X-Trace: tron.sci.fi 970414996 15968 195.74.24.8 (1 Oct 2000 15:43:16 GMT) Organization: Arabuusimiehet Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Oct 2000 15:43:16 GMT Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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