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From: ack@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Andy J. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why does my keyboard stick in UPPERCASE?
Keywords: keyboard uppercase
Message-ID: <8522@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 2 Apr 88 16:00:11 GMT
References: <1680@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <5783@bunny.UUCP> <5785@bunny.UUCP>
Reply-To: ack@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Andy J. Williams)
Organization: Ack Systems
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In article <5785@bunny.UUCP> jcs1@bunny.UUCP (James Sinclair) writes:
>In article <5783@bunny.UUCP>, ps01@bunny.UUCP (Paul Suh) writes:
>> 
>> You have probably activated the Easy Access feature by accident, hittin
>> the shift key five times in a row, then twice more to do a shift lock.
>> The short-run solution is to hit the shift key five times, which will
>> deactivate Easy Access.  The long run solution is to remove the Easy
>> Access INIT from your system folder.  
>> 
>I have experienced the same problem as the original poster, except that
>instead of being limited to the shift key, it also sometimes happens
>with the control key or the option key.  I do not have a copy of Easy
>Access in my System Folder, so I believe the problem must be coming from
>another source.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Jim Sinclair (jcs1@bunny.uucp)

This may or may not help, but we had a similar problem with a Mac II keyboard.
The Caps lock, option and possibly a few other keys were sticking.  I have
heard other Mac II users complain of similar problems and am wondering if
maybe Apple shipped bad keyboards...

-ajw

what
can
we
use
to
fill
the
empty
spaces
where
we
used
to
talk
(I hate innews line filling)

just say fieyrnt.


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