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Date:	Mon, 02 Jun 2003 07:41:34 -0400
From:	eyeleica@lvcm.com
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Subject:	Re: SCOUG-Help: Re: USB kbd

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In <1054570699-0-Info@SYNass.NET>, on 06/02/2003
at 07:18 AM, "Info 4 SYNass" said:

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>Hi Butch
>I believe and fear that you run into a wrong assumption / direction !?

>1st: Your elder mobo's may not support USB
>2nd Your elder mobos's do not have the USB sockets
>3rd USB, if I remember correct, is SWC ware which costs extra money with
>OS/2
Svobi, your email just flattened me! You are right about usb and os/2.
But I am putting out hope that some kind of usb support can be found with
no charge. If not, I will have to try linux on the machine. Thanks for
the info. >I do remember vagely that you may had the intention to buy eCS
!? However >even with eCS be carefully with investing into old / obsolete
HW !!!

>Good luck, svobi

>eyeleica@lvcm.com on 02.06.2003 15:34:53
>Please respond to scoug-help@scoug.com
>To: scoug-help@scoug.com
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>Subject: SCOUG-Help: Re: USB kbd (was warp 4 install diskettes)

>In <3EDA6E4D.3188.6D4A588F@localhost>, on 06/01/2003
> at 09:24 PM, "Dave Watson" said:

>>On 1 Jun 2003 at 21:12, eyeleica@lvcm.com wrote:
>>> ... a couple of old computers: a pentium 166 with 64 mgs of ram and
>a
>>> pentium 133 with the same amount of ram. ... I've acquired another
>old
>>> computer, an AMD K-6, but the problem with this is the ps/2
>connection on
>>> the motherboard. At boot I get stoppage with error that the
>keyboard is
>>> faulty or missing. I am switching to a usb keyboard when it arrives

>>I hope it works, Butch. But you should probably check your bios to
>make
>>sure it recognizes USB keyboards. I had a board about that vintage, a
>>200 or 233, I think, with a bad PS2 keyboard connection, and a USB
>port,
>>but it wouldn't recognize a USB keyboard on bootup, either.

>Thanks for the advice. I'd better give the bios a check on recognizing a
>usb keyboard. You would think the motherboard manufacturer and the bios
>manufacturer would be in-line with each other, but I've found that with
>older computers, there are many irregularities. For instance, with one
>of
>the older computers, the boot sequence in the bios includes booting from
>cd. Upon communicating with the bios maker, the particular bios model
>will not boot from cd. However, for $69 an update will fix that. Now
>the
>update is down to $19, but that is a different story.

>thanks, butch

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