tcd@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (05/20/91)
I know this is not really an appropriate place to post this, but I was wondering if anyone else has had problems typing the word "top" on a Macintosh. I have noticed that if I type this word quickly, about one out of ten times I lose the "p". If I notice the missing p before I hit any other key, then I can pound on the p key as much as I want without getting a response. Pressing any other key seems to clear the problem. So, typically you're typing along and you lose a "p" plus the next keystroke but you don't notice it until you look at it later. At that point, you're most likely to conclude that your pinky finger is going bad. I have experienced this problem using several different applications (e.g., MPW, MS Word) on a variety of Macintoshes, but always with the extended keyboard. Does anyone else have this problem, or is it just something about the way I type? If your machine has the same problem, you should be able to see it by typing: toptoptoptoptoptop quickly, but with a slight pause after each p. I have also seen this same problem with the sequence "shi" (you can guess what I was typing...actually it was "shift"). I am posting this not because it is a particularly significant bug, but because it is so weird. It seems to have something to do with 2 letters that follow each other in the alphabet, but the 1st characters seems also to be significant in some way. Any ideas? Also, is their an e-mail address where apparent bugs should be reported? I had a friend send this somewhere in the Apple direction, but don't know what every came of it. Tim Dorcey