| From: | gary waddington |
| Date: | 11 May 2000 at 09:46:03 |
| Subject: | Re: Hot (un)plugging cables |
On Thursday, May 11, 2000 1:37 AM, Duncan Gibb
[SMTP:DuncanGibb@ultramail.co.uk] wrote:
> VGA, however, is NOT SAFE. I know this because I once hot-plugged a
1942
> monitor from an A2000, burning a track on the A2k motherboard out for
about
> six inches. Still, a bit of soldering and Paxtron didn't complain...
>
I don't know about external floppies, but I can definitely state that
internal ones aren't too keen about having their power unplugged while
turned on. A loosely fitted power cable fell out of one on my A2000 when
I was tinkering with it. At least the flash that came from the power
supply was something exciting to see.
Gary
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