On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Colin Wood wrote:

> > On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Colin Wood wrote:
> > Thanks.  On a barely related note....is it true that there is potential of
> > a worrisome magnitude to fry one's video card on the newer powermacs by
> > switching monitors while it's on?
> > 
> > I used to do this a lot on my older machines but i recall hearing it isn't
> > safe...  Is this just Apple's DON'T DO ANYTTHING approach to safety?
> 
> Well, personally, I'd never hot-swap _anything_ that plugs into my Mac 
> (well, ok, I've hot-swapped ADB devices on IIcx's for years and it's 
> never caused a problem, even though it's supposed to blow the ADB 
> controller, and I've also swapped out SCSI devices before without 
> destroying anything, but I'll never do that again ;-)  In general, I 
> think it's better if you simply turn things off before adding or removing 
> hardware.
> 
I would love to....but it's kind of inconvenient to shut down the system,
thereby losing the screen contents, when you are debugging the screen
contents....

One monitor, two Macs.

Ah well.