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From: garym@telesoft.com (Gary Morris @wayward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: can one key just quit?
Message-ID: <1262@telesoft.com>
Date: 10 May 91 16:26:27 GMT
Reply-To: telesoft!garym@ucsd.edu
Organization: TeleSoft, San Diego, CA, USA
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Recently the TAB key on my Apple standard keyboard stopped working.  All
the others work just fine and I checked the tab keyswitch with an ohmmeter
and it seems to be working fine.  Could it be the CPU (or whatever) in the
keyboard? I can't imagine how it would fail where only one key wouldn't work.
I checked it with Keycaps DA and it just doesn't ever show the tab key when
its down.

Any clues? or ideas on where to check?  

FYI, I'm using 6.0.7 on a Mac IIcx, and also tried booting a write-protected
6.0.4 system master disk and it had the same symptoms, so I don't think its
a software problem.

--GaryM
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Gary Morris                       Internet: garym@telesoft.com
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