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Subject: Submission for mod-computers-apollo
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Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 15:48:22 EST
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From: bobr@zeus.TEK.COM (Robert Reed)
Newsgroups: mod.computers.apollo
Subject: Re: Bouncy key boards
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Date: 4 Feb 87 20:48:21 GMT
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In article <870202145758.270266@HI-MULTICS.ARPA> Winkler@HI-MULTICS.ARPA writes:
>Apollo keyboards bounce.  All switches bounce.  This is a subject near
>to my heart since I'm one of the original heavy handed typists.  The
>answer to my prayer would be the ability to set keyboard sensitivities.
>Actualy what one would want to set would be the delay between key
>repeats.

Some Apollo keyboards do bounce.  Some switches do bounce.  That does not
mean that all keyboards do bounce.  Keyboard debouncing circuits have been
used in some keyboards FOR YEARS!  (Try to get keyboard bounce out of any
Tektronix keyboard).  This has nothing to do with key repeat rate.  It's the
difference between microseconds and miliseconds.
-- 
Robert Reed, Tektronix CAE Systems Division, bobr@zeus.TEK