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From: michal@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Merlin The Magician)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: PC (XT) keyboard & XT/286 m/b
Message-ID: <25345.26d502c6@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 24 Aug 90 15:34:46 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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 Netlanders,
 
 Is there any way to get an 84-Key Keyboard to work with an AT
Motherbaord ? Before you answer, here is the scenario:
 I own a True Blue XT/286 Box with True Blue 101 AT Style Keyboard.
It all works well. For reasons not to obvious, I would like to
get this box to work with a True Blue 84 PC (yes!) keyboard. 
 When the system boots with the PC keyboard plugged in, an error
message is displayed (System Options not set, F1 to continue) and
an annoying repetative beep is heard, which cannot be made to go away.
 IBM local dealer says the two keyboards use a diffrent scan and you
CANNOT use an XT (PC) keyboard on an AT m/b. But then the rep also
flatly denied the existance of an IBM XT/286. 
 
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Merlin [The Magician] (AKA Michal Chmielewski) 
US Mail: Academic Computing Services, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
E-mail : michal@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, michal@ukanvax.bitnet, AT&T (913)-864-0443