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From: richard@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU (Richard Brittain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Cursor keys
Summary: Zenith did this in their bios
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Date: 29 Nov 89 07:05:55 GMT
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Reply-To: richard@calvin.spp.cornell.edu (Richard Brittain)
Organization: Cornell Space Plasma Physics Group
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In article <6080@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> rogers@iris.ucdavis.edu (Brewski Rogers) writes:
>Recently, I had the opportunity to screw around with an Apple 3 for a few
>hours. Yes, that's "APPLE ]|[" the old sequel to the apple 2 which
..
>When editing a file for example, you could push the key normally,
>and scroll slowly through the file, or push the key a little harder,
>and the cursor would double its speed! The cursor keys had a nice feel,

I've never seen this in hardware, but I played with a Zenith 286 machine
once that implemented something similar in the keyboard bios routines.  If
you held a key down, you got an autorepeat after some delay time, then after
some number of slow repeats, it switched to high gear and took off at high
speed.  I think the hardware was pretty standard - you could do this with
any pc type bios, but I've never heard of it anywhere else.

Richard Brittain,                   School of Elect. Eng.,  Upson Hall   
                                    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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