On 8/2/07, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

> if i unplug the ps2 mouse from running terminal box, and then plug it in again,

I don't think you should be doing this, the ps2 interface is not hot-plugable,
in theroy you can kill your mouse or computer doing this - though I never have.

-Steve

I used to have a metal keyboard on an old 286. I had on hand on it with the other dangling down when my cat rubbed up and gave me a static shock... the computer's speaker then went on and stayed on.

It's amazing what you can do to a computer with a PS2 port :-) (or was that an AT port).

Luckilly it wasn't completely dead, but I think it didn't like "extra power" I applied. I've also not seen a metal keyboard case in a while. Good old Packard Bell Legend V and it's 16MHz of glory.

Dave