On Fri, 17 May 1996, Ernst du Toit wrote:

> 
> If you want no video card in the box, make sure the BIOS support no video
> adapter.
> 
> As for the keyboard, I just close my eyes and jam the plug in while the box
> is on to gain keyboard access - done that a few times now and the
> motherboard still talks to the keyboard. DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK :-)
> 
	At your own risk is right.  At a place I used to work we had four 
NetBSD boxes hooked up to one head and one keyboard through a switchbox.  
One day we switched it to one machine and *POOF!* no keyboard interface on 
the motherboard.  Lucky we had another MB floating around.  The console 
was used extensively by NOC personel.  I'd recomend against jamming 
keyboards in on live computers - hell, after this I'd recomend aginsnt 
using switchboxes.   

					jmg