🚀 go-pugleaf

    Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 18:14 EDT
    From: Rainer Joswig <joswig@lavielle.com>

    >It's as though the keyboard does nothing sometimes, but other times it
    >sends keystrokes on its own so messages like "h-s-m-c-sh-Mouse-L"
    >appear at the bottom of the screen.
    >
    >The keyboard behavior seems to be the same in the FEP to.

    Sounds like a hardware problem.


    >Also, sometimes a message like
    >
    >  [16:03:52 Warning: An error correction has occurred in physical memory.
    >            For further information use the Show Memory Error Corrections :Detailed Yes]

    Go to the FEP. SCAN iNNN-tests.flod (NNN is the version you have
    in your FEP dir).
    Then you have several commands to test your memory.
    Test Main Memory . Etc. This should help to locate the
    memory problem.

    >
    >[By the way, do any of you know of a keyboard for the PC with the same
    >clickiness and feel of the Symbolics keyboard?]

    The last keyboard from Symbolics (the heavy one, it could
    be a part of a "guillotine") is the best.

    The advantage of a MacIvory is that you can get an adapter
    to connect the keyboard and the 3-button mouse to the Mac
    (up to 68040/Quadras - unless somebody is willing to improve
    the driver to make it work on a PowerPC Mac - just the keyboard
    would be cool for MCL). So you can use the Symbolics keyboard
    on a Mac together with modern color monitors. 

I'd never heard that the ADB box doesn't work on PowerPC macs.  How does
it fail?  The reason a MacIvory doesn't is some timing incompatibility
in the Nubus drivers which has never yet been completely diagnosed.

    Sometimes I'm transferring text files to my MacIvory - just that
    I can edit them there.

    There is nothing like that for the PC or for Unix boxes - AFAIK.


    Rainer Joswig, "Lavielle" EDV Systemberatung GmbH & Co. KG, Lotharstrasse 2b,
    D22041 Hamburg, Tel: +49 40 658088, Fax: +49 40 65808-202,
    Email: joswig@lavielle.com , WWW: http://www.lavielle.de/