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From: nebel@wam.umd.edu (Chris D. Nebel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple Extended Keyboard Pr
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Date: 14 Feb 90 20:09:00 GMT
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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.

I find this whole thing a bit strange.  Before I heard about other people
having problems with this, I would plug and unplug ADB devices while the
machine was on all the time.  Never had the slightest problem.  I've gotten
paranoid in my old age :) so I don't do this any more, but it seems very
odd that I could do this something like 50 times without ever zorching my
machine.  Maybe I'm just lucky...


Chris Nebel
nebel@wam.umd.edu