Re: Missing keyboard

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From: sha... Sharon Fisher
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1989 04:50

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In article <1989Dec19.0...@world.std.com> ma...@world.std.com (jim frost) writes:
>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.

Similarly, a friend of mine testing early Macs once got the message,
"Please insert hard disk into floppy drive."

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From: sha...@asylum.SF.CA.US (Sharon Fisher)
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Subject: Re: Missing keyboard
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Date: 23 Dec 89 04:50:08 GMT
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