I've never had any problems with pulling out serial connections while the computer is on (and sometimes you have to do it (i.e. you've got a mouse on com1, a modem set to com3, and you don't want ...

Very little remains of Steve Jobs' NeXT, except that it is the reason Apple survives and is how the web began. Here's the peculiar story of the company Jobs formed after leaving Apple on September 12, ...