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From: emv@panchovilla.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
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Subject: Re: Keyboard Lock-up
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Date: 11 Mar 88 06:52:49 GMT
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In article <45900118@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>The most common cause of locking up a keyboard is hitting <ctrl>p
>or <shift>prt-sc or <ctrl>prt-sc on a machine with a printer port but
>without a connected, turn-on printer. This happens to me at least twice
>a day.

I stuck a paper clip in the printer port to make that problem go away.
Can't remember the theory but the practice is like this:

   o o \ o o o o o o o o o o      put the paper clip in connecting the
    o o \ o o o o o o o o o        marked pins and it doesn't hang.

Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan mail group.