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From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Keyboard Weirdness --> An ANSWER
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Date: 31 Jul 90 20:22:11 GMT
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Reply-To: jtn@potomac.UUCP (John T. Nelson)
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems -- Arlington, Va
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>Does this mean that some keyboards exhibit the problem and some don't.
>
>I passed this problem to Mac Technical Support and they have verified it 
>is real and submitted a bug report to whoever it is that fixes such 
>things. At first glance it seems Maurice is saying it's hardware and Apple 
>is saying it's software but, of course, with things like keyboards, it's a 
>bit hard tell which is which!


I have the same problem on my Mac at work and at home.  If I type the
string ...

outgoing

the keyboard will actually type ouging or ou;oing.  In fact it just
happened!  Notice that the letter "t" is the culprit much of the time
Its strange that I CONSISTANTLY get a semi-colon supstituted for the
"t" and "g".  This indicates to me something more than a random error
or dirt in the keyboard.

According to one poster, Apple claims that the problem is due to
"software."  Yeah right.  Apple has their SEP field (somebody else's
problem) turned up full I see and it'll probably take another big
stink like the quantum hard disk fiasco to get them to upgrade the
quality of their products.


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