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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1000 Keyboard flakiness
Message-ID: <2256@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 14:24:32 EST
Article-I.D.: gryphon.2256
Posted: Wed Nov 11 14:24:32 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 05:34:20 EST
References: <2188@gryphon.CTS.COM> <4415@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
Lines: 38
Keywords: Curley cords, kids, orange juice
Summary: 8250 ? I Don't want to hear that.

In article <4415@well.UUCP> the wierd guy from another planet writes:
>In article <2188@gryphon.CTS.COM> I wrote:
>>Well, here it is, almost my Amiga's 2 year birthday, and I *finally*
>>have a hardware problem. The keyboard is flakey.
>>
>>Symptom: every now and again, it does this:
>>
>>'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
>>
>	This is exactly the same thing that used to happen to me when my
>8520 started going south.  It was caused by my inserting the printer cable
>wrong.  Do you fiddle with your printer cable a lot?  Does your kid fiddle
>with your printer cable?

Huh ? Printer cable. Oh oh.

8250, thats the UART isn't it ? Oh oh.

Well yes, as a matter of fact I do share the serial port
with the modem and the laserprinter. Also, because of of kiddo
and the housekeeper, I have had every possible combination of
things plugged into everything else. Like video plugged
into parallel, laserprinter plugged into disk drive port etc.

I am secretly amazed that everything is still running :-)

I think the caps lock light flickering when the cable is jiggled points
to a cable connector problem.

>Leo L. Schwab 


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