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From: borgen@stud.cs.uit.no (Boerge Noest)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2000, B2000, what's the DEAL!???
Keywords: Revisions, A2000, B2000...etc etc...
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.172737.17841@hod.uit.no>
Date: 22 Nov 90 17:27:37 GMT
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In article <16011@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>The real problem, of which you see two symptoms here, was based on the fact
>that there were two different keyboard designs.  The original, which used
[...text...]
>up to the A1000 via an adaptor cable.  This keyboard can be identified by the
>smaller function keys -- they're the same size as the "Esc" key.  All A2000as 
>and a few A2000bs shipped with this keyboard.  We switched over to the newer
This is the one I have (rev 4.1 , which I believe should have been a
reseller demo-unit only)
>size of the "Alt" keys.  The "miss the first character" problem is based on 
>some drive differences between the two keyboards.  The original keyboard had
[...]
>the keyboard connector.  When the new keyboard came along, these caps were a
>bit too much for it, only it took some time before anyone noticed there was
>a missing character problem.  Eliminating the additional caps, restoring the
>original design, solves the problem.
My "problem" is that MY KEYBOARD WORKS OK NEARLY 100% OF THE TIME! I'm
puzzled by this, as I'm supposed to always miss the first character. It
only happens once in a while when I try to break the startup-sequence(and I
haven't put in any fancy stuff to fix it). There is a number of games that
break with my keyboard though(Ocean and Dinamic(sp?) especially).

Can anyone inform me why this is so, or perhaps you have a test program for
the keyboard that could cast some light on this(to see how it behaves
compared to a "new" keyboard).
>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
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