> On Jun 17, 2015, at 10:50 , Toby Thain <t...@telegraphics.com.au> wrote: > Here's a cute gotcha I hit this week: > > - Have a running Windows 8.1 machine with PS/2 keyboard. > - Shut it down, start up with only USB keyboard. > - Shut down and boot again with PS/2 keyboard atached. > - Windows ignores it (although BIOS flashes lights normally, etc). > - Registry change (found by google) & reboot brings it back to life. > > Can't imagine how many good keyboards were dumpster'd over that one.
Working in the GPS industry, I became all too familiar with how Windows can't tell the difference between a Microsoft Serial BallPoint and a 4800 baud NMEA stream. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X <n...@nf6x.net> http://www.nf6x.net/
