On 2/25/2018 9:11 AM, Jan Steinman via olympus wrote:
. . . 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...
Not so uncommon.
In the Big Blue Iron days, a friend was the sysop for our BIG computer computer operations.* He had those shelves of
constantly updated, loose leaf manuals. Trying to track down a problem, he followed references from page to page, book
to book, finally finding the admonition to refer to his sysop. "I AM the Sysop!!!"
I had a manual for a program, On (let's say) page 146, it advised me to go to
page 146 for the answer.
Infinite Loop Moose
* At one point, they made a trench to run a high speed line under the street between the building full of computers and
another one full of those industrial washing machine like disk drives.
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