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From: KevinKinsey@archangel.daleco.biz, DaleCo@archangel.daleco.biz,
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To: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu>
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Subject: Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!
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On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:49:09PM -0800, Chris Pressey wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:44:11 -0600
> Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone on the list point me to a manufacturers site or
> > documentation that unequivocally states in clear terms the real
> > dangers of hotplugging a PS/2 device?
> 
> How about http://www.heurtley.com/richard/maintenance.html ?
> 
> It's basic electronics - plugging or unplugging anything from a powered
> device has a greater-than-zero chance of frying it.  The difference
> between "hot-pluggable" USB and "risky" PS/2 can be summed up like so:
> 
<snip> 
> -Chris

Nice research, Chris, thanks for that...here's an embedded reference
at a hardware site....

http://www.majikmarcer.com/html/tutorials/entsys.htm

FWIW, and hopefully not just a "me too", but merely anecdotal evidence:
I've blown an AT mobo (old keyboard, what was that ... DIN 5-pin?) this
way.  Very disappointing.  However, I may search the junk closet and
pull it to check for fusible links thanks to your post.... ;-)

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.