My computer has a sense of humour

[venator]

Every morning, the boot up message flashes up the immortal lines -

"No keyboard detected
Press F1 to resume"

[rojash]

Your computer assumes that you are intelligent enough to read that as "connect a keyboard, then press F1 to resume".

[heathfield]

I'd say it's the computer programmers who, from their ivory towers, seem to assume that everyone on the planet is totally computer literate!

[Old_Geezer]

The computer should be coded to distiguish the difference between it not detecting a keyboard, and one not being plugged in. But the traditional IBM PC has a number of daft aspects to it that no one ever bothered to correct.

[Postdog]

Bugger. I saw the headline and thought it was the penis as a password joke.

[jake-the-peg]

Unless you're running a 20 year old IBM I doubt that it does.

That was the last BIOS I saw that actually gave that message.

It does endure as an urban myth though I see.

If it actually does though I'd be interested to know the type of computer and the BIOS

[fourteen85]

Post dog, is that the penis that is mightier than the sword?

[Postdog]

No, password is too short.

[rojash]

"I'd say it's the computer programmers who, from their ivory towers, seem to assume that everyone on the planet is totally computer literate! "
Well, back in the days (early 80s) when that message was created, that was pretty much the case.

[venator]

Jake - This isn't an urban myth, and my computer's not an antique - here are the BIOS details


DMI
---------------------------------------------
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DMI BIOS
vendor American Megatrends Inc.
version 0805
date 04/18/2008



DMI Baseboard
vendor ASUSTeK Computer INC.
model M3A
revision Rev 1.xx
serial MB-xxxxxxxxxx



DMI Processor
manufacturer AMD
model AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad-Core Processor
clock speed 2600.0 MHz
FSB speed 200.0 MHz
multiplier 13.0x

If you're interested in antiques, I have a working Osborne Executive - the first portable, with 2 inch green screen and two 5 1/4 floppy drives. Runs word processor and spreadsheet - what more do you need!! :-)