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From: warningm@prism.cs.orst.edu (MICHAEL WARNING)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The 'PHANTOM TYPIST'
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Date: 5 Feb 90 19:02:32 GMT
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In article <900204.10484196.021631@SFA.CP6> Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) writes:
>
>    There has been an increasing amount of talk about the 'phantom
>typist' on the ST, in which the computer appears to slow down and
>whatever characters are stored in the keyboard buffer, appear, albeit
>slowly.  Some programs which have keyboard commands, such as WordPerfect
>can have work saved when you see this happen by pressing the save file
>command, typically <S>.  It may occur a minute later (!!!! grrr) but it
>will occur.
> [...]

	I had a similiar problem on my Mega...  The only difference was that
the characters were appearing <very> quickly in the keyboard buffer.  The
fix was to open the keyboard and put some shielding between the boards in
there, apparently some leads were touching or something.  I could also
(sometimes) fix it by unplugging the keyboard for a second and replugging it.
I'm not sure if this is the same problem that your encountering, but it may
be similiar...

					Mike Warning
						warningm@prism.cs.orst.edu