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How did he plug in the PS2 mouse and have it work instantly? Normally you had to reboot the system for the PS2 mouse to be recognized, or worse, it would freeze
by iJohnDoe 2y ago
How did he plug in the PS2 mouse and have it work instantly? Normally you had to reboot the system for the PS2 mouse to be recognized, or worse, it would freeze the system.
Kudos to the designer of the web site back then. Very cool.
- gosub100 2y agoYou might be confusing it with COM port mice on DB-9 connectors. I seem to remember those had to be set up and the machine rebooted.
- colanderman 2y agoNo, RS-232 (serial/COM/DE-9/DB-25) could be freely plugged and unplugged. PS/2 peripherals however always warned against hot-plugging [1]. The reboot you are remembering is because serial mice needed drivers installed. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_port#Hotplugging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_port#Hotplugging
- bombcar 2y agoShot swapping mice and keyboards COULD damage some systems - but most, if they booted with it connected, could be disconnected and readded. Also why “no keyboard detected-press F1” - it wants you to connect a keyboard and then press F1.
- otterpro 2y agoMe, too. I got anxious when Mr. Rogers began to do the unthinkable. Surely he is not going to plug a ps/2 mice into a live PC, is he? And he did. Oh, so many memory of me crashing my PC whenever I did that, forgetting that the PC was powered on.