[Info-vax] swap and page files

[Paul Sture]

In article <kc6i9m$s3p$2 at speranza.aioe.org>,
 glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

> Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
> 
> (snip)
> 
> >> Better than the "keyboard not found...press any key to continue" 
> >> message.
>  
> > That one is a gem, and at least you can have a good laugh at it.
> 
> If I remember that one from the MS-DOS days, I then plugged in the
> keyboard, pressed F1 (I think that is what it wanted) and it worked!
> 
> Anyone remember:
> 
> C:> FORMAT C:
> press any key when ready?
> 
> In the early versions, control-c and control-break counted as
> any key.

Oh dear...

> Then again, there were add-on keycaps saying "ANY" that you could
> put on your keyboard.

When Compaq was still Compaq, they had a support page devoted to 
explaining what the "any key" was.

-- 
Paul Sture