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From: johnj@knor.prl.philips.nl (John Janssen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: random key repeats...
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Date: 17 Apr 91 11:17:05 GMT
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In article <2171@xenon.kcl-cs.UUCP> bointon@kcl-cs.UUCP (Marcus "Bru" Bointon) writes:
>
>I have recently started to have an odd problem- occasionally any of the keys
>esc, 1, 2, 3 or 4 will suddenly start to repeat at the full repeat rate.
>It can be stopped by pressing escape. The problem has occured on 2 STs using
>similar setups.
>
>
>		Marcus Bointon.
>	


After having never seen this for 5 years, I finally had it too.
I was just typing in First Word Plus (not even fast typing).

Besides the symptom described by Marcus above, I also had the following:
The last two charcters typed in, repeated only once, and from then on,
the ST takes ages (ok, just about 5 seconds I guess), to draw every
next character on the screen. I am able to select the save option in
the menu (which popped up rather fast-), but the actual save action
never starts. Only Ctrl-Del-Shift-etc helps.

For your knowledge:
No programs were started within the autofolder, and
I had only the SNAPSHOT accesoire started.

Is this the always denied PHANTOM TYPIST?

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