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From: josephc@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Joseph Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: The dog ate it... Keyboard Port Failure
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.201606.6874@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 91 20:16:06 GMT
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mds@duke.cs.duke.edu (Mark David Shattuck) writes:


>	This weekend our dog bit through the keyboard cable.  I got

Gee, and if you'd had a cat, it'd have eaten up your mouse's tail!

>a new keyboard, but alas, it seems that something else is wrong.  I
>get the message "keyboard error! user check".  Everything else works
>fine.

>System:

>	DTK PEM-2500 25Mhz 386 w/64K cache. 
>	new focus 5001 keboard.

Aha!  Turn your keyboard over, and there should be a sticker that tells you
the configuration for the dip-switches.  You may have to switch the keyboard
from the Enhanced-AT to the AT mode.  The dip switches are located underneath
the logo-panel on the left side of the keyboard (that's after you've turned
it right-side-up again).  Push down on the upper-edge of the logo-pad as if
you're trying to massage the thing, and the cover should lift-up enough for
you to pull it out of the way.

--Joseph

Unsolicited endorsement:  I'm the "rep" for my house (dorm).  I recently
acquired 2 of the Focus-5001 keyboards, and I have gotten relatively 
good comments about it.  The only problem is that of the two keyboards, one
had a somewhat softer set of keys than the other (but consistent throughout
each of the keyboards).  While I strongly recommend the 5001 keyboard to
anyone who wants a 'better keyboard' and want a calculator (a simple dealy,
but handy when you forget bring yours to the computer room), ask to see
the keyboard and make sure it feels firm enough for you.  (Well, some people
like softer tacticle-feedback, but I was raised on the PC keyboards with
the weird return key.)

Just a satisfied customer, no financial interest.  Blah blah.
>Thanks Alot!
>-- 
>mark shattuck (mds@physics.phy.duke.edu)
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