Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Damned BIOS Date: 2 Sep 2014 21:00:46 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ITyNg6X4m1j+c5bf1vTQcQqnoHnajzPmabZQwhuhzp4z2Yt0p3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:9Y4bnXp6qOOsBXtApL9WWNo+kHI= User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:4669 On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 21:12:35 +0100, polygonum wrote: > On 02/09/2014 20:41, Bob Eager wrote: >> I never understood that to be a problem withh keyboard ports; only with >> mouse ports. > > You could be right - I was always paranoid about the possibility and > never destroyed a motherboard by not plugging in either when powered up. > Hence dead PCs were always created by others who might have said > anything about what they did. Given that the interface was often via the same chip, I've always wondered. The mouse bit might be (partial) folklore based on blowing up add-on mouse ports in the days before they were standard. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org