From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 5 16:59:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CEA337B423 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 16:59:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f45NxeO13618; Sat, 5 May 2001 16:59:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 16:59:40 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Doug Russell Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no keyboard Message-ID: <20010505165940.H18676@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010505121008.E18676@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from drussell@saturn-tech.com on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 06:08:05PM -0600 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Doug Russell [010505 16:48] wrote: > > Besides... It's not as bad as hot-swapping ISA cards. When I first got > my Microsoft InPort Bus Mouse (with Windows 286) years and years ago, I > used to often move it between my BBS machine and my development machine > every few minutes when I was building some of the ANSI screens, etc. > > Occasionally I had to go to DOS and re-enable the mouse driver, but it > actually worked because the card was so simple. :) Not recommended. > > Yes, I am crazy. HA! :) Back when I was much younger I got a Pro-AudioSpectrum16 I was playing the jumper game with it trying to find a free IRQ for the beast, at about 4am with my eyes half shut from being exahusted I forgot to power off the machine before inserting the card. I got a nice very bright blue arc of electricity from the PAS to my IO controller. I screamed and quickly hit the power. Remarkably the both the PAS and IO board continued to function until they were decommissioned several years later. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org] http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~slumos/on-netbsd.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message