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from: Paul Rogers
date: 2005-03-28 19:06:04
subject: Keyboards

The NMB keyboard I bought with this 486/33 in 1991 seems to periodically
be going off-line.  I can switch the KVM to a dead hole and back, which
bring it back with the default repetition delay/rate.  But I've been
trying "new" keyboards.  All these other AT-DIN5 keyboards, even the
ones that don't have "Windows Keys", give me an extra beep at boot and
every time a mode command/change happens, e.g. DV/Windows.  However,
NT/4 won't boot with them.  Yes, I understand the 1991-era BIOS code is
involved, (no, these are UV-EPROMS from Micronics, there is NO BIOS
upgrade available), and there is a KVM switch in the middle (I _think_
once when I tried NT/4 with one of these keyboards connected directly it
worked, but I couldn't swear to it right now).  I'm presuming the
keyboards are trying to use different protocols.  Does anybody else have
any experience with different AT keyboards behaving similarly?

Paul Rogers, paulgrogers{at}yahoo.com                       -o)
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