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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 28 Sep 2000.
Re: Warning!

Re: Warning!

On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:02:31 GMT, ppu...@damnthatspam.chello.nl (Peter
Punk) wrote:

>On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:27:13 +0300, Ville Jouppi <vjo...@sci.fi> provoked the
>following text:
>
>>>>  ________________________
>>>> |________________________|
>>>> |                        |
>>>> |   Keyboard not found.  |
>>>> |                        |
>>>> |  Press F1 to continue  |
>>>> |________________________|
>>>
>>>That was an actual error message on XT-machines....
>>
>>It may not be 100% obvious, but you can plug in a keyboard and press
>>F1.. :-) The message makes sense after a bit of thought.
>
>That's the whole problem, it _doesn't_ make sense. If you hotplug a keyboard you
>run the risk to blow up the keyboard controller and that would mean that the
>motherboard had to be replaced.

There is always the risk, but I'm only concerned about PS/2-devices
being hot-plugged.

Never had an AT-keyboard blow by hot-plugging (nor an Amiga one for
the record)
--
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From: Ville Jouppi <vjo...@sci.fi>
Subject: Re: Warning!
Date: 2000/09/28
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