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From: DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu
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Subject: Re: transformer keyboard problems
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Date: 11 Dec 90 18:25:11 GMT
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In article <1990Dec6.175420.15736@agora.uucp>, billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
says:

>:my amiga gets stuck on booting msdos when its waiting for something
>:on the keyboard.  this problem occurs reportedly only on some keyboards.
>:supposedly the low level keyboard access routines dont wait long enough.
>:

>        Couple of possiblities... Get a new keyboard, the only ones that had
>this problem were those real early Cherry keyboards. The newer HiTek keyboards

I have one of those real early Cherry keyboards. :-)
I do encounter a program that screws up the keyboard handshake from time to
time, but I've always been able to patch the program to fix the problem.
It should be noted that not all keyboards are the same, and you MUST abide
by the specifications in the hardware manual (unless you want your program to
work ONLY on Amiga 500s like some of those stupid programmers out there that
never even heard of hard drives...:-))

-- Dan Babcock