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In article <17814@laurel.athertn.Atherton.COM>
voder!pyramid!athertn!alex@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Alex Leavens) writes:
>
> The TSR Newbell.prg (which replaces the bell on the Atari with
> digitized sound playback) seems to make this bug happen fairly
> frequently;  all you need to do is pop up the 'About GEM' dialog
> box from the desktop, click on anywhere _but_ the OK button, and
> wait for the sound to stop playing.  About 1 in 4 times, you'll
> get multiple playbacks of the sound, followed by a whole series
> of keyclicks (the phantom typist!).  As soon as you press a key,
> the typing stops.
>
Some problems may arise with programs, that use Kbdvecs() to
install themselves and that forget to look at the newly-documented
status variable that tells wether the IKBD is busy sending a
'packet'. Changing the vector in the wrong moment would disturb
the BIOS definitively.
BTW: I had the 'phantom typist problem' when using older versions
(<3.14) of Wordplus.

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