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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1000 Keyboard flakiness
Message-ID: <4415@well.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Nov-87 18:59:19 EST
Article-I.D.: well.4415
Posted: Mon Nov  9 18:59:19 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Nov-87 06:22:17 EST
References: <2188@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Keywords: Curley cords, kids, orange juice
Summary: You too, huh?

In article <2188@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>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?

>The only other wierd thing is that if I pick
>up the keyboard, the caps lock light flashes.
>
	Ooo.  That never happened to me.  No idea about that one.  I *guess*
it could be the 8520.  It's at least worth looking into.

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