My new Dell AT101w keyboard

If you’ve read my previous post about my attempts to get an IBM ThinkCenter S50 from 2005 to boot past its Power-on self-test (POST), you are aware that I required a PS/2 keyboard. These are no longer available in local electronics or computer shops, so, once again, I took to Marktplaats.nl. There I found a handful of PS/2 keyboards, none of them small and none of them black. The most beautiful keyboard I could find was a Dell AT101w (with the “w” indicating a Windows key) that was at that moment in Haarlem and of which the seller claimed he had meticulously cleaned and tested it. It arrived at the day of writing this post and, after unwrapping, looked positively beige. I wonder if I can get matching Super keys With the keyboard’s purple cable end attached to its purple PC counterpart, the ThinkCenter still complained about a missing disk drive but F1 allowed me to enter the IBM Setup utility, in which I changed nothing. Using my new keyboard to browse around the menus gave me the…