> 1) Look at the way it's done with things like hot-swap CompactPCI 
> boards.  They have longer fingers on the power pins to ensure they get 
> contact first before other signal pins.

Hmmm, easy to build into the edge connector. The Vss finger could be
a little longer still

> If you plug the board in with it's power off via a switch, the I/O pins 
> may be subject to latch-up behavior as they may be powered up from
> the external bus

Exactly, don't want that to happen

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