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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple Extended Keyboard Pr
Summary: Nice design, Apple!  You gonna fix this?
Message-ID: <1615@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 14 Feb 90 04:27:54 GMT
References: <41132.25D6F2C7@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <1142@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <1142@ux.acs.umn.edu> clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) writes:

>i can attest to this.  I've seen three Macintosh IIs blow their motherboards
>because the user unplugged the mouse while the computer was powered up.
>Always power down the machine before adding or removing ADB devices.


Nice job, Apple.  I find it kind of inexcusable that they don't have a warning
in huge letters somewhere obvious in the documentation for ADB machines.  I
knew that the ADB was dangerous, so I've never done that to my IIx, but it
was nowhere that I read in the docs.

I wonder if they plan to make this a bit more robust?  Considering the design
of the machine, it's really easy to accidentally unplug an ADB device
(especialy with third-party keyboards like my Mac-101 with the ADB on the back
edge).  Pull the keyboard too far away from the machine, and PING!  Bye, bye
motherboard. 

--Mike