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5 total messages Started by k... Kai Ivo Quale Mon, 18 Dec 1989 18:00

#495

Author: k... Kai Ivo Quale
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1989 18:00

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I seem to remember a booting script with the following sentence:

"Keyboard missing. Please press F1"

Kai Quale

Re: Missing keyboard

#496

Author: 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

Re: Missing keyboard

#498

Author: D'Arcy J.M. Cain
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 02:03

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In article <24...@ifi.uio.no> k...@grimne.uio.no (Kai Ivo Quale) writes:
>
>I seem to remember a booting script with the following sentence:
>
>"Keyboard missing. Please press F1"
>
>Kai Quale

That's not folklore, that's the IBM-PC

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Re: Missing keyboard

#499

Author: ef... Esther Filderman
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 03:07

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Excerpts from netnews.alt.folklore.computers: 18-Dec-89 Missing keyboard
Kai Ivo Quale@grimne.uio (114)


> I seem to remember a booting script with the following sentence:

> "Keyboard missing. Please press F1"


I've seen some models of the Leading Edge PCs do this.


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Esther C. Filderman             ef...@andrew.cmu.edu
Andrew Specialist		Computing Services
Computer Operations	Carnegie Mellon University

Re: Missing keyboard

#497

Author: 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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