On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:48:57AM +0800, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote: > can't as say that I could agree with this. electonically speaking, there's > no current being transmitted, and thus no power. the only way it could > burn out, is if there was no overvoltage limits in place, and with keyboards > running on 5V, I can't see it killing the ports. Don't forget it's a PS/2 > port and identical to any current generation PC. I haven't heard of any > reports of anyone's PS/2 keyboard (or mouse) port dying due to lack of use > ;)
As another list member pointed out to me, it seems that I might have been thinking about that if you yank out the keyboard cable while the machine is running that it will fry the keyboard chip. Either way, I think I've got enough reassurance to go ahead and tuck away my multia in cool spot, sans keyboard, to chug away as a web server. -Rob
