Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Northgate keyboards do not have N-key rollover Message-ID: <1979@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 30 Sep 90 23:50:13 GMT References: <39363@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <1968@sixhub.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 24 In article liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato) writes: | What you are describing ("asdf") _is_ N-key rollover. My new OmniKey Ultra | only has 2-key rollover, however. I get "asss" until I release the "a" then | I get "dddd" until I release the "s", etc. This is their newest model so | they have indeed changed things. After much banging I really can't see | why you need rollover to the nth degree anyway. I guess if you type at | 100 wpm you might have the possibility of having three keys depressed | simultaneously. I can only create such a situation artificially. I got a chance to try doing this. I found a keyboard without N-key rollover. I typed one of my passwords (insuring that no one could see it). It was messed up. I typed my login for several systems and their passwords. They *all* messed up. I am tempted to believe that for things which I type frequently, that my typing speed does reach the speed needed to cause trouble. I wonder what ever posessed them to mess up the keyboard. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me