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Date:      Sun, 6 May 2001 01:45:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net>
To:        Ceri Storey <c.storey@student.umist.ac.uk>
Cc:        Ingo Flaschberger <if@sil.at>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: no keyboard
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105060144270.16321-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010505195859.A383@cds220.halls.umist.ac.uk>

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On Sat, 5 May 2001, Ceri Storey wrote:

> On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:54:18PM +0200, Ingo Flaschberger wrote:
> > > Note : this is a way to kill your keyboard : an AT keyboard is not
> > > hot-plug compatible
> >
> > i have never killed a keyboard with un / plugging.
> > at linux it works.
> Well, it works, until your keyboard does actually break :)

I've toasted lot of keyboards this way (Fujitsu POS no less). I have found
that IBM keyboards take the punishment quite well. At least I can count on
IBM engineering. As a result, that's the only type of kbd we keep in our
datacenters.

-gordon


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