[rescue] Wrong Ports

Steve Hatle rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Nov 14 12:37:40 CST 2001


Old Multitech modems used to have a power connector that was the same as 
an AT keyboard port. We'd fry about one MB a year by having one of the 
techs scrunched up under a counter plug the modem PS into the keyboard 
port.

Steve

On Wednesday, November 14, 2001, at 11:31 AM, Brian Hechinger wrote:

>
> i'm guessing there is some smarts in that card that knows when some 
> moron (like
> me) plugs a keyboard into it to not fry itself.  or maybe i'm just 
> lucky.  god
> i can't wait till that thing is up and running, this laptop keyboard 
> sucks ass.




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