Path: utzoo!censor!geac!maccs!art
From: art@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Art Mulder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The 'PHANTOM TYPIST'
Summary: When it happens to me is in WordWriter.
Message-ID: <25CDFC38.13821@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 5 Feb 90 22:20:40 GMT
References: <900204.10484196.021631@SFA.CP6>
Reply-To: art@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Art Mulder)
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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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.  ...  <stuff deleted> What is
>needed is for everyone who encounters it to immediately (!!!) write down
>what was done to cause the phantom to show and post what happened.  ...
>  <stuff deleted> 
>Larry Rymal:  |East Texas Atari 68NNNers| <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>

System Configuration:  Mega 2 (unmodified- has blitter) Mono monitor.

It has happened to me on the order of twice a year, allways allways allways
in WordWriter ST.  Everything slooooooows down - I have usually been able
to get it to save.  I don't recall anything distinctive, I'll make note
of details next time it occurs.
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