Can confirm. Killed a Packard Bell sometime around 1990 hot plugging the keyboard. Luckily they warrantied it.

On August 27, 2017 1:43:41 PM CDT, Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:
::Quoting Simon Hobson (linux@???):
::
::[PS/2 6-pin mini-DIN vs. old 5-pin DIN]
::
::> AFAIK the underlying protocol for the keyboard is the same (or near
::> enough for simple conversion) between the two connector formats to
::> allow for easy conversion between plugs.
::
::It absolutely is, and therefore the two share the trait that users can
::(rarely) fry motherboard circuity by assuming the connection supports
::hotplug operation, which strictly speaking it was not designed to do.
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