Re: Missing keyboard

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From: ma... jim frost
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 05:14

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k...@grimne.uio.no (Kai Ivo Quale) writes:
>I seem to remember a booting script with the following sentence:
>"Keyboard missing. Please press F1"

Burned into the ROM on many PC's.  The IBM version first gives you an
error number (no @%$! message, just a beep and a number) then says
that.  Some clones give errors.  This existed on IBM PC's through (at
least) early versions of the AT.

jim frost
ma...@std.com

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