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From: groenewo@swi.psy.uva.nl (Groenewoud Ferry van het)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 500 sticky keys
Message-ID: <4420@swi.swi.psy.uva.nl>
Date: 15 Oct 90 12:16:05 GMT
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thyerj%hamlet.acc.uncg.edu@ncsuvm.ncsu.edu writes:


>        Quite often I have a problem with my Amiga 500 keyboard. One or
>two of the keys seem to not respond at all until you beat on them really
>hard. Cleaning the keyboard seems to have no real effect on the problem.
>If anyone has had similar problems to this, let me know if you have a
>solution!

Woh! I have exactly the same problem! At a certain moment my DEL and
cursor RIGHT key started to fail. No matter how hard I pressed them,
they wouldn't work. When I, being irritated, slammed my hands on the
keyboard, pressing many keys at once, the keys would sometimes suddenly
start to work again, both. I never had this with other keys, only these
two, and they always failed *together*. Now they don't work no more at all
(snif!) so help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!

Of course I checked out whether this would be some kind of virus but
no, that can't be, unless the virus is able to jump physically from
disk to disk. I even removed my memoryexpansion. No use.

Still I think amiga is great however.

>Jonathan Thyer
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