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ADB Hotswapping
Posted by: Paralel on 2015-11-05 19:39:29 ...by hot plugging ADB to a toaster. I'd be interested in an ADB equipped toaster.
Posted by: rsolberg on 2015-11-05 21:32:12 I'd be interested in an ADB equipped toaster. I had one, but it's no longer available.
Posted by: thekhakinator on 2015-11-06 02:48:11 Loved the memes. Thanks for the experience share guys, particularly uniserver. If I can get all my Macs operating I should have some fun hotswapping ADB without a care in the world. 😀
Posted by: Schmoburger on 2015-11-06 09:48:36 I take no responsibility if someone else takes this as advice and causes a catastrophic cascading global telecommunications and power grid failure by hot plugging ADB to a toaster. You sir, have won the internet for today,... well... yesterday.
Posted by: Paralel on 2015-11-06 12:10:18 I had one, but it's no longer available. B1RP_HOUSE_FIRE_02.jpg The world is a lesser place now.
Posted by: thekhakinator on 2015-11-08 02:12:37 I successfully hot swapped my ADB keyboard and mouse between my Macintosh II and LC III today. It was great! Then the Mac IIs hard drive died. So all in all, a total fail of a day but at least ADB hot swapping worked!
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2015-11-08 06:39:32 I successfully hot swapped my ADB . . . It was great! Heh! Forbidden fruit. [😱)] ]'>
Posted by: Schmoburger on 2015-11-08 07:33:04 Heh! Forbidden fruit. [ 😱) ] I successfully hot swapped my ADB keyboard and mouse between my Macintosh II and LC III today. It was great! Then the Mac IIs hard drive died. So all in all, a total fail of a day but at least ADB hot swapping worked! This thread just keeps on delivering... I love it! 😀
Posted by: techknight on 2015-11-08 11:18:05 Delivering something.... but what... I havent been able to figure that out.
Posted by: Schmoburger on 2015-11-08 12:13:01 Lols or internet cancer... one of the two. Maybe even both.
Posted by: thekhakinator on 2015-11-12 05:16:03 I beat the HDD back into shape, anyway. It's one I've had open before so I wasn't surprised at its unreliability.
Posted by: johnklos on 2015-11-12 13:40:34 You sir, have won the internet for today,... well... yesterday. I won the Internet once... Ah, those were the days!
Posted by: trag on 2015-11-13 02:11:08 It's all fun and games until someone gets an inducted voltage spike in the eye (or the adb port).
Posted by: TimHD on 2016-01-02 01:33:38 Another ADB switcher ('port juggler'!) is on eBay (re-listed at USD$ 😎 if still interested... http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vintage-APPLE-Macintosh-PORT-JUGGLER-/391354056702?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6543#shpCntId
Posted by: techknight on 2016-01-02 05:42:30 thats not ADB. thats serial.
Posted by: Bunsen on 2016-01-04 21:53:49 BTW: Peripherals would be the forum of choice. Moved.
Posted by: Dog Cow on 2016-01-05 13:57:53 ADB hotswapping: the danger is real. :O I have done it. Killed the ADB on a Mac LC. Unplugged the keyboard without thinking with power on. 🙁 The keyboard and mouse survived, but the ADB port never worked again on that Mac LC.
Posted by: uniserver on 2016-01-05 14:11:18 Ah that was just dead caps. i have ADB issues all the time with the LC, The cap goo ooze runs all over that area and there is a transistor right that that rots up and dies... witch i commonly just fix with a normal cap job.
Posted by: Elfen on 2016-01-05 18:54:25 I have killed several Mac SEs during the 90s hotswapping keyboards. Mice tend to be nice to hotswap and never had a problem with it.
Posted by: uniserver on 2016-01-05 19:30:46 were these customers machines you killed? I'v never had the luxury of killing anything adb hotswapping, i have a stack of parts boards a mile high... i'd love to blow an ADB port right out... I'd have it fixed in 10 minutes. I have an AEKII and Apple ADB mouse hooked together... i hot plug the piss out of them. and enjoy every minute of it. this is so funny.... was just posted in the Ham Radio FB group... if you like digital modes you can join my group. ( i just started it ) https://www.facebook.com/groups/1107477789276580/
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