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) -- CBM, PEZ, and TI-calc nut, Scout, Glider pilot, Helpdesk-person Email: vjo...@sci.fi, URL: http://www.sci.fi/~vjouppi/ GSM: +358-40-5679999, IRCNet: Jope "I see", said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,88827fb15a6e2736 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Ville Jouppi <vjo...@sci.fi> Subject: Re: Warning! Date: 2000/09/28 Message-ID: <dpDRORF8DzM1u7hntFo1FqNkq=Z...@4ax.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 675059123 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8pim57$li0$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk> <Pin...@joxer.acsu.buffalo.edu> <j06...@4ax.com> <781...@4ax.com> <WSH...@4ax.com> <5lq...@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: new...@saunalahti.fi X-Trace: tron.sci.fi 970134760 23231 195.74.24.8 (28 Sep 2000 09:52:40 GMT) Organization: Arabuusimiehet Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Sep 2000 09:52:40 GMT Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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