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From: gwyn@BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn, VLD/VMB)
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Subject: Re:  Problem with AME?
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Date: 9 Feb 89 20:00:16 GMT
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I generally cut MY keyboard contact cleaner from a business card,
but otherwise what Moss said is what I would have said.

Keyboard contacts generally "bounce" (make-and-break repeatedly),
and there is a "debounce" circuit that waits a certain amount of
time until the oscillations should have died down.  A defective
contact can bounce more than the circuitry allows for.