Compaq diagnostic disks

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 08:21 pm, Jim Leonard wrote:
> jim stephens wrote:
> > This machine works like the old AT's did with Cmos batteries.  when the
> > batteries lost the disk setup and time information, you had to boot them
> > from a floppy to set the time again, and to set cmos back up again.
>
> Mine still boots properly to HD after all these years.  *MY* problem is
> that I've lost the keyboard!  The DIN is a normal 5-pin, but it is so
> far recessed that I can't get any of my regular keyboards to physically
> fit into the plug.
>
> Any suggestions?  Any idea where to get a replacement, or at least
> keyboard with an enormously long plug?

Maybe a keyboard extension cable would help here?  I use a couple of them in 
my setup here,  both the 5-pin DIN...

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