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Question of the Day! | by kickstart | 2006-11-19 12:26:49 |
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Whatever you're working on, shut it off first. | by NOLAWitch | 2004-01-15 05:51:54 |
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Been there, done that, do it anyway | by SnappingTurtle | 2004-01-15 06:51:43 |
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Those people are wrong. | by LionsPhil | 2004-01-15 07:29:01 |
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PS/2 keyboards are though, | by Tomo | 2004-01-15 07:38:25 |
| Hmm.. well, they're the same, electrically, as |
by julius.apweiler |
2004-01-15 08:57:53 |
the old AT keyboard plugs, aren't they? Quite a different beast from PS/2 mice, really. Anyway, I've 'hot-swapped' AT keyboards quite a lot, and it's not a problem at all. Ever seen the 'Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue' message? It's not as stupid as it sounds. Plug in a keyboard and press F1 on it. Similarly, a machine set to boot without keyboard will accept a keyboard being plugged in later. In theory at least, machines with PS/2 connectors should work the same way.
My MS Natural Keyboard at home is interesting - it's got both USB and AT/PS/2 connectors. When both are plugged in, the USB part just acts as a USB hub (there are two ports on the keyboard); when the PS/2 is unplugged, it becomes a USB keyboard as well. So when both are plugged in, and I pull the PS/2 plug, the machine (if properly USB enabled -i.e. Win98 doesn't always like this) continues to work, with an interruption of maybe a few seconds. |
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