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From: hollen@spot.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Booting AT (or clone) WITHOUT Keyboard ?
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Date: 22 Dec 88 16:24:07 GMT
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From article <2316@cuuxb.ATT.COM>, by fmcgee@cuuxb.ATT.COM (~XT4103000~Frank McGee~C23~M24~6326~):
> 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. [...stuff deleted...]
I am not sure whether you can circumvent it, but if you need to go
into the BIOS, you might look to ANNABOOKS BIOS.  They sell source code
and rights to BIOS for $199.  I have the XT version, and they have
done a very good job.  Their AT version has just recently come out.
You will need MSC and MASM to build a custom BIOS from their source,
but if this is your only alternative, it will work.

By the way, how about booting the machine (you, the one who knows what
to do) and when the boot process is finished, just remove the keyboard 
so people who don't know what to do can't screw up.  Another 
alternative, how about putting the keyboard in a locked drawer under
the computer?  I know these are rather low-tech solutions, but they
sure seem to be less hassle to me.


	Dion Hollenbeck             (619) 455-5590 x2814
	Megatek Corporation, 9645 Scranton Road, San Diego, CA  92121

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