carmi@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Aviram Carmi) (12/06/89)
In article <6521@tank.uchicago.edu> rer3@tank.uchicago.edu (richard elliot robbins) writes:
+I recently purchased an Apple Extended keyboard for my Mac II.
+The keyboard seems to work well in general, however, when I
+type certain characters rapidly garbage is consistently generated.
+For example, when typing the three letters "omp" the following
+characters are generated "om0-p;," This happens consistently and
+across software products as well as with differing versions of
+system software (6.0.3 and 6.0.4). I have tried this with all of my
+inits off. I never saw such behavior with my old Datadesk-101. The
+problem goes away when I switch back to my old keyboard.
+
+I'd certainly appreciate any words of wisdom...
+
+Thanks,
+
+Rich Robbins
I have encountered exactly the same problem that you are describing.
The keyboard was purchased about a month ago to replace another extended
keyboard which I gave to my sister. The old keyboard did not display
this problem, but the new one is prety consistent as you are describing.
It also generates the same garbage characters when typing "o,p".
(And "ou;" instead of "out", but that's less frequent.)
I have not tried any other key combinations, but since
the "," and the "M" keys are next to each other, I would assume
some problem with the contacts in the keyboard and not in the software
(inits, system, etc.); I am using a MacII 6.02 and lots of inits.
Has anybody else encountered this strange behavior???
Any solution???
Avi Carmi (carmi@mars.jpl.nasa.gov)