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From: fmcgee@cuuxb.ATT.COM (~XT4103000~Frank McGee~C23~M24~6326~)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Booting AT (or clone) WITHOUT Keyboard ?
Message-ID: <2316@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 88 16:29:37 GMT
References: <18468@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
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Organization: AT&T, Data Systems Group, Lisle, IL
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In article <18468@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes:

>Or is going into the BIOS and removing the keyboard checking the only
>way?  If that is the case, I would like to know that.

I have a feeling this is the only way that you will be able to get a
keyboard-less cpu to boot.  If I remember right, most PC/AT keyboards
actually have a keyboard encoder chip inside the keyboard.  The
diagnostics go out to the keyboard and make sure it is there and in a
usable state.  So just having a pig-tail on the keyboard port probably
won't work.

I could be wrong though, all I've worked on are clones, and "true blue"
may be different.

Good Luck !

Frank McGee
Tier 3 Indirect Channel Sales Support
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Frank McGee
Tier 3 Indirect Channel Sales Support
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