running a server headless/keyboardless?

[Scott Allen]

On Thu Sep 09,2004 11:48:26 AM Henry Spencer wrote:
> If one is willing to spend money on dealing with such stupidity,
> there is (or was -- haven't kept current) at least one company
> that sells a little widget that plugs into a keyboard port and
> pretends to be a keyboard, precisely to convince stupid BIOSes
> that there really is one there.

If you're a little mechanically inclined, you can grab an old 
keyboard (or buy a cheap $10 one from Factory Direct, etc.). Open it 
up, keep the little circuit board and the attached cable, then junk 
the rest. Put the circuit board in a small plastic bag, or somthing 
else that is non-conductive. The result is a "keyboard simulator" 
that is much smaller than a real keyboard.

To save even more space, you can cut a slot in a PC back plate to run 
the keyboard cable through, and put the board somewhere inside the PC 
case.
  
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