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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
For real? Maybe that's how I killed my port when I was a kid.

So what, you can't disconnect your PS/2 mouse and reconnect it while the PC is working?
gpt
&gt;So what, you can't disconnect your PS/2 mouse and reconnect it while the PC is working?

Exactly it.

It's something we take for granted now, that cables are just hotplug, but PS/2 isn't electrically safe to hotplug, it can short vcc to ground on the way out and in.