rer3@tank.uchicago.edu (richard elliot robbins) (02/05/90)
On several occasions my ADB Extended keyboard has gone dead. When I reboot, everything seems fine. What's the problem? Thanks in advance, Rich Robbins
rieman@boulder.Colorado.EDU (John Rieman) (02/06/90)
In article <7458@tank.uchicago.edu> rer3@tank.uchicago.edu (richard elliot robbins) writes: >On several occasions my ADB Extended keyboard has gone dead. >When I reboot, everything seems fine. >What's the problem? > >Thanks in advance, I don't have an answer, but it happens to my SE/30 sometimes also, with a "short" keyboard. Usually it's after I've gone away and left the Mac alone for a while. -john rieman@boulder.colorado.edu U. of Colo.
Ed.Edell@f563.n107.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ed Edell) (02/08/90)
> On several occasions my ADB Extended keyboard has gone dead. When I > reboot, everything seems fine. What's the problem? Happens to me- Usually, its the connecting cable getting pulled just loose enough from the keyboard that does this. One drawback to the 'new' ADB type connections, vs. the 'old' modular-phone-cable-connection that was used on the MacPlus and earlier. Most of the time I can just unplug the cable from the keyboard, and plug it back in, but sometimes I have to reboot to make it all okay again. -Ed -- Ed Edell via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!107!563!Ed.Edell INET: Ed.Edell@f563.n107.z1.FIDONET.ORG
gdavis@primate.wisc.edu (Gary Davis) (02/10/90)
From article <40636.25D1A07A@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG>, by Ed.Edell@f563.n107.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ed Edell): >> On several occasions my ADB Extended keyboard has gone dead. When I >> reboot, everything seems fine. What's the problem? > > Happens to me- Usually, its the connecting cable getting pulled just loose > enough from the keyboard that does this. One drawback to the 'new' ADB > type connections, vs. the 'old' modular-phone-cable-connection that was > used on the MacPlus and earlier. Most of the time I can just unplug the > cable from the keyboard, and plug it back in, but sometimes I have to > reboot to make it all okay again. -Ed This happened to me last night. It was the first time after using the keyboard for more than two years. I have my Mac II and an external hard disk plugged into a switched outlet bar. I usually turn on the main switch, then hit the start button on the keyboard. This time I happened to do the two pretty much simultaneously. Something (the Mac, the monitor, the keyboard?) let out a loud hum I had never heard before and the keyboard was dead after the machine booted up. Rebooting fixed it. The mouse, connected through the keyboard, still worked when the keyboard didn't, so I doubt a loose cable was the cause in my case. Perhaps some kind of electrical surge confused the logic circuitry (in the keyboard?). Gary Davis