> On 15 Dec 2022, at 03:44, Haines Brown <haines@???> wrote:
>
> Sorry not to have been clearer. I'm usuing PS2 keyboards (IBM M5
> keyboards is all I have). My new box lacks a PS2 port and so I had to
> get av PS2-USB adapter. It worked. It has been woking for for
> about half a year.
>
> However, this morhing I found I lacked keyboard input. When I pulled
> the keyboard and apdapter the adapter fell apart. I tried
> another PS2-USB adapter, but a different brand from the one that fell
> apart, and it did't work.
>
> Someone suggested a possible adappter-keyboard incompatibility, and so
> I tried the same brand adaptaer as my original one. This works, but
> only in a USB port other than the one I was orignally using. So I'm
> back in business, but perhaps with a non-functioning USB port.

I seem to recall that PS/2 is not hot-pluggable unlike USB. Does this still apply to the USB-PS/2 adapters?