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Subject: Re: Anyone seen these keyboard problems ?
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Date: 30 Jul 90 23:54:49 GMT
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In article <23382@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, danno@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Danno) writes:
> Gavin Eadie writes:
> 
>>   I too, and two of my colleagues, have been having trouble with
>>   keyboard stoppage as we type certain sequences fast. The sequence in
>>   particular is "stop" (which is typed a lot into VersaTerm for our
>>   mainframe software) and the final "p" sometimes doesn't appear. If you
>>   notice, and type "p" again it still doesn't work - you need to type
>>   something else to 'unjam' the keyboard.
> 
> In my case, the problem is that I cannot type a space after the word
> "to" sometimes; I have to type one letter (which does not appear), then
> everything is normal. 

I believe that my problem is more embarrassing than these:  I have a problem
typing the word "shift" in WriteNow.  My work requires me to type this often
and I have the problem that the f gets left out.

I'm convinced that the problem is not with my typing in this case.

Patti