> From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> On line tech support for software is also stunningly difficult. "Press the
> "A" key." [sound of lots of fast typing]
> "That didn't do it!”
I remember buying a used drum scanner, that had a MeSs-DOS clone for a
controller. Things weren’t working. The computer didn’t even have a monitor
card, but was supposed to auto-boot from the Optronics floppy.
I finally borrowed a monitor card and hooked it up to see if I could figure out
what was going on. Upon re-starting, the screen said:
No keyboard detected. Press any key to continue.
And that actually had nothing to do with the problem, really! The memory backup
battery had gone kaput, so the computer couldn’t remember that it was supposed
to be headless. It was a stupid custom battery that was no longer available, so
I wired up an AA holder and put some lithium AAs in there.
Problem solved! But with no help from the cretin who authored that error
message...
:::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::
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