Re: Warning!
From Peter Punk <ppu...@damnthatspam.chello.nl>
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· 28 Sep 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:51:31 +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. Why is it that you are concerned about hotplugging a PS/2 device, but not about hotplugging a keyboard? >Never had an AT-keyboard blow by hot-plugging (nor an Amiga one for >the record) Have you ever tried hotplugging a keyboard on an XT? It's quite an experience (on the Phillips XT's at least...) -- Peter Punk \ / ---\\\\--- / \ Draai je SETI@home en ben je lid van HetNet? Ga dan naar http://home.hetnet.nl/~setiathomegroep/index.html voor tips, antwoorden, discussies. links, downloads en meer. There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,88827fb15a6e2736 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: ppu...@damnthatspam.chello.nl (Peter Punk) Subject: Re: Warning! Date: 2000/09/28 Message-ID: <352...@4ax.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 675211788 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> <dpDRORF8DzM1u7hntFo1FqNkq=Z...@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abu...@chello.nl X-Trace: flipper 970164542 213.46.113.192 (Thu, 28 Sep 2000 20:09:02 MET DST) Organization: Total Disorganisation MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 20:09:02 MET DST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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