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From: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: IIgs Keyboard ADB connector bad
Summary: ditto
Message-ID: <18915@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 29 Oct 89 21:14:04 GMT
References: <145300012@tippy>
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In article <145300012@tippy> emerrill@tippy.uucp writes:
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>                                                           The connect
>I have been using to plug in my keyboard has gone bad, so I have a 
>functioning keyboard, and a sometimes functioning mouse.  :-(  I've
>noticed a weird problem that corresponds to this--sometimes my computer
>will start to go super-slow (takes 5 secs to draw the control panel screen)
>and will only go back to normal (actually "fast") when I unplug the mouse
>from the faulty connector.

I have the exact same problem, and it was also mentioned in the recent
(November) A2-Central (back page).  Has anybody been able to successfully
recover from this?

If I plug the keyboard into the wrong one, strange things happen.  If I
plug just the mouse into the bad one, the *really* strange things (like
the above) start to happen...

>No, I'm not handy with a solder iron...  :-)  And I don't think I really
>trust my local Apple dealer to fix this, but that's another story...

Your Apple dealer won't fix it, he'll charge you $80+ for a new keyboard.
Here we go again, getting screwed by Apple Dealers for lousy Apple design
practices (can you say "dead //gs battery"?)  Maybe somebody will come up
with an easy fix like they did for the "replaceable" battery...

Actually, Apple probably will.  After all, it affects Macintoshes as well.

> |  Eric Merrill  tippy!emerrill@newton.physics.purdue.edu |

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