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venator | 05:56 Tue 26th Jul 2011 | Jokes
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Every morning, the boot up message flashes up the immortal lines -

"No keyboard detected
Press F1 to resume"
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Your computer assumes that you are intelligent enough to read that as "connect a keyboard, then press F1 to resume".
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!
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.
Bugger. I saw the headline and thought it was the penis as a password joke.
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
Post dog, is that the penis that is mightier than the sword?
No, password is too short.
"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.
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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!! :-)

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