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From: scotth@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM (Scott R. Herzinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: ADB Extended Keyboard Problem
Keywords: ADB Extended Keyboard Garbage
Message-ID: <5199@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 10 Dec 89 03:50:13 GMT
References: <6521@tank.uchicago.edu> <2338@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Reply-To: scotth@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM (Scott R. Herzinger)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <2338@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> carmi@mars.UUCP (Aviram Carmi) writes:
>In article <6521@tank.uchicago.edu> rer3@tank.uchicago.edu (richard elliot robbins) writes:
>+For example, when typing the three letters "omp" the following
>+characters are generated "om0-p;,"  This happens consistently and
...
>this problem, but the new one is prety consistent as you are describing.
>It also generates the same garbage characters when typing "o,p".
>Has anybody else encountered this strange behavior???

I bought my Apple Extended Keyboard around the first of November, and 
immediately observed this problem.  It only occurs when typing
quickly, but I'm quick enough, I guess, and I've discovered more words
containing "omp" than I realized I used.

Since not only are the extra characters 0-;, generated, some command
or option keystroke is also generated, causing funnies in some applications,
for example, a font change in MS Word 4.0.

>Any solution???

It's faulty hardware.  It should be repaired or replaced under the
warranty.  I took my keyboard back to the computer dealer where I
bought my system.  It was still under warranty, failed consistently,
caused a well-known software package (MS Word, also used internally by
Apple) to hiccup, etc., so they cheerfully replaced my keyboard with
one that didn't exhibit the problem.  It was pretty painless, and I
suffered minimal down time since they didn't oblige me to leave the
keyboard overnight.  They checked with Apple tech support, who said
they weren't aware of the problem.  My keyboard is on its way back to
Apple, hopefully to be added to a few other data points.

Best of luck to the others with this problem.

Scott
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Scott Herzinger   scotth%crl.labs.tek.com@relay.cs.net
                  Computer Research Lab, Tektronix, Inc.
                  PO Box 500 MS 50-662, Beaverton, OR 97077