Is Olivetti M24 supposed to pass POST without error message with no keyboard connected?

[george]

Hi again. I am new to M24. I am restoring a set of several M24 PCBs, and when powering the M24 it signals no error for the absence of keyboard and boots from the floppy drive. Is that normal? There must be some problem with the motherboard or misconfiguration? When I attach Valerio's freshly built keyboard converter it does not make any change, the computer behaves identically like with no keyboard/converter connected.

 

[george]

Okay, answered myself after successful connection of AT keyboards. For those starting M24 for the first time or who forgot, there are no POST messages for the keyboard not connected. At least in BIOS V1.36 .