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From: jhood@biar.UUCP (John Hood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Keyboard Weirdness --> An ANSWER
Message-ID: <1157@biar.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 90 00:24:09 GMT
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In article <9005@potomac.ads.com> jtn@potomac.UUCP (John T. Nelson) writes:
>>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 

It's hardware.  It's a design choice; keyboard manufacturers can design
keyboards to accommodate any number of keys being held down at a time,
or they can choose to only have the keyboard work properly with some
small number of keys (usually 2) held down, which is a bit cheaper.  I
think all apple keyboards fall in the latter category.  Some PC
keyboards do, some don't.

It's a bit amusing that the tech support people didn't know this and are
treating it as a bug.

  --jh

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John Hood, Mann Library, Cornell University
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