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From: pietrzak@guava.CES.CWRU.Edu (John Pietrzak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The 'PHANTOM TYPIST'
Message-ID: <1990Feb13.164019.4830@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 90 16:40:19 GMT
References: <900204.10484196.021631@SFA.CP6> <17814@laurel.athertn.Atherton.COM> <1990Feb8.181949.6042@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <173@raider.MFEE.TN.US> <13352@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: pietrzak@guava.UUCP (John Pietrzak)
Organization: CWRU Dept of Computer Engineering and Science, Cleveland, OH
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In article <13352@watcgl.waterloo.edu> wsflinn@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Scott Flinn) writes:
>
>Has anybody else noticed any correlation between rapid sequences of
>keystrokes (involving multiple backspaces) and the appearance of the Phantom?
>
>-- 
>Me:      Scott Flinn                   /  "If it doesn't fit, force it.
>Domain:  wsflinn@watcgl.waterloo.edu  /  If it breaks, then it didn't
>UUCP:    watmath!watcgl!wsflinn      /  fit anyway."

   The only time a phenomenon like the "Phantom" ever happened to me was in a 
case similar to this, where I was typing in WordPerfect quickly or backspacing
quickly, and the machine sort of took over.  This hasn't happened to me 
in the last year or so; I attributed this to getting the Wordperfect 89 update
and/or moving to a mega ST (both of which happened around the same time :-).
If the people with mega's have experienced the phantom, could this problem be
solved in software (i.e., the new WordPerfect fixes the problem)?

J P