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Article #461SlimSport 286 problem with WP5.0
From: Nick Buchholz
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 1991 17:48
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 1991 17:48
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My wife just got a Zenith Slimsport 286 to use at her office and we are
experiencing some weird problems.
The machine has a copy of WordPErfect 5.0 which is acting up. The symtoms are
as follows:
While editing a file if a key is held down long enough to engage the key
repeat feature the key in question begins to repeat at very High speed.
(approx 8 pages of characters in 30 seconds) in addition releasing the key
does not stop the repeat (at least not in any finite time). Any other key
stroke will stop the repeat.
On occasion the fast keystroke repeat also causes semi random sequences
of characters to be repeated. some of the ones we've seen are:
jjj^H^H^Hjjj^H^H^Hjjj^H^H^H . . .
or
gggggggggggggggggggg<cr>
gggggggggggggggg<cr>
ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg<cr>
Has anyone out there seen this behavior? Is there a fix? Is the slimsport
a boat anchor? HELP!!!
Nick C. Buchholz
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!noao!buchholz From: buchholz@noao.edu (Nick Buchholz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: SlimSport 286 problem with WP5.0 Keywords: wordperfect zenith Message-ID: <1991Jan11.174824.17904@noao.edu> Date: 11 Jan 91 17:48:24 GMT Followup-To: comp.sys.zenith Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, USA Lines: 31