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From: hackman@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Otto "Hack-Man" Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: IIgs Keyboard ADB connector bad
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Date: 30 Oct 89 03:25:05 GMT
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fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) writes:
>In article <145300012@tippy> emerrill@tippy.uucp writes:
>[snip]
>>                                                           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?

Yeah, I had the same problem.  I had it soldered.  That fixed it for a month
or two, then the same problem came back.  I had it re-re-soldered, but it
didn't help this time.  The only other advice I've seen is to look at Radio
Shack (or equiv) for parts (I assume the connector).

>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...

Yup.  EXACTLY the same symptoms as I had.         Sigh.

>> |  Eric Merrill  tippy!emerrill@newton.physics.purdue.edu |
>fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)

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