[net.micro.apple] Koala Pad for IIe problems.

rbt@sftig.UUCP (R.Thomas) (10/23/84)

Has anyone else noticed that the Koala pad for the IIe/IIc seems to develop
glitches when you move the stylus too fast (where 'too fast' is defined as as
fast as you would move a pencil point while doing careful hand printing.)
It skips over the area in between the end-points of a line.

Is this because the Apple is not sampling the outputs fast enough? or what?

Rick Thomas
ihnp4!btlunix!rbt

holst@diku.UUCP (Bo Holst Christensen) (11/01/84)

The problem is not the speed of the Apple II thats causing the
problems, but the contacts in the Pad. When the pressure on the
Koala Pad is to small, the Pad returns zero values. The problem
also exists when the Apple is using a speedup card like the
Accelertator or SpeeDemon.

            Bo Holst-Christensen
            Institute of Datology,
            University of Copenhagen,
            DK-2200 Copenhagen N.