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Article #32862Re: Plugging in ADB devices
From: Edward C Horvath
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 1988 15:03
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 1988 15:03
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From article <60676@felix.UUCP>, by kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr): > The September issue of Macintosh II Report (Thom Hogan and Michael Swaine) > says that "Plugging anything into the Apple Desktop Bus while the system is > running can harm the Macintosh II's motherboard. This means that you shouldn't > plug or unplug either the keyboard or the mouse while the system is running." I haven't heard of this happening to anyone. What CAN happen, and is documented by Apple, is that plugging/unplugging can cause a spurious reset, and that the software that manages the ADB only polls for devices at system startup, so you may not get what you hope for. I have moved keyboards off of and onto a Mac II and an SE while they were running. Both keyboards were Apple, although one was a IIGS keyboard (yes, they work fine) and one was the Mac "standard" ADB keyboard. Usually it works, sometimes it doesn't. Haven't fried anything yet... =Ned Horvath=
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihnp4!poseidon!ech From: ech@poseidon.UUCP (Edward C Horvath) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Plugging in ADB devices Message-ID: <526@poseidon.UUCP> Date: 4 Oct 88 15:03:39 GMT References: <60676@felix.UUCP> Distribution: comp.sys.mac Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft, NJ Lines: 17