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Article #40496Re: The 'PHANTOM TYPIST'
From: MICHAEL WARNING
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 19:02
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 19:02
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In article <900204.10484196.021631@SFA.CP6> Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) writes: > > There has been an increasing amount of talk about the 'phantom >typist' on the ST, in which the computer appears to slow down and >whatever characters are stored in the keyboard buffer, appear, albeit >slowly. Some programs which have keyboard commands, such as WordPerfect >can have work saved when you see this happen by pressing the save file >command, typically <S>. It may occur a minute later (!!!! grrr) but it >will occur. > [...] I had a similiar problem on my Mega... The only difference was that the characters were appearing <very> quickly in the keyboard buffer. The fix was to open the keyboard and put some shielding between the boards in there, apparently some leads were touching or something. I could also (sometimes) fix it by unplugging the keyboard for a second and replugging it. I'm not sure if this is the same problem that your encountering, but it may be similiar... Mike Warning warningm@prism.cs.orst.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!orstcs!prism!warningm From: warningm@prism.cs.orst.edu (MICHAEL WARNING) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: The 'PHANTOM TYPIST' Message-ID: <15500@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 5 Feb 90 19:02:32 GMT References: <900204.10484196.021631@SFA.CP6> Sender: usenet@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU Reply-To: warningm@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (MICHAEL WARNING) Organization: Oregon State Univ. -- Computer Science Lines: 21