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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1000 Keyboard flakiness
Message-ID: <2255@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 14:05:05 EST
Article-I.D.: gryphon.2255
Posted: Wed Nov 11 14:05:05 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 05:33:42 EST
References: <2188@gryphon.CTS.COM> <24640UH2@PSUVM>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <24640UH2@PSUVM> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
>In article <2188@gryphon.CTS.COM>, richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) says:
>>Symptom: every now and again, it does this:
>>
>>'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
>>
>Maybe it is just a sticky key.
>     

Uh, perhaps, but I'd really doubt it. This wouldnt explain why the
caps lock light flickers if I move the keyboard cable.

The computer used to be in a part of the house where I would
sit on the couch, keyboard in lap, feet up, staring at the 
monitor. Since the keyboard cable doesnt have a strain relief
(like the nice one on the ATT contempra phones), I suspect it's the
cable, since it spent about a year being s  t  r  e  t  c  h  e  d.

It's on a desk now, and when it gets into spazz mode, I just unplug
the keyboard, and plug it back in and it's right as rain.

I think I will try to bend the metal connectors in the connector
jacks to see if I can force some more complience into them. If that
fails I'll buy a new cable.

The fact that when the cable is wiggled wierd things happen
is perhaps the clue here.
>     


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