Re: Shell scripts

[Eric Fischer <enf@pobox.com>]

Andrew Erickson <aje9383@osfmail.isc.rit.edu> wrote:

> The phantom key effect was a side effect of the keyboard decoding which
> the Apple ][, at least, used; if too many keys were down, it lost track
> of what was going on and inserted additional characters.  Starting with
> the //e, a more clever keyboard controller was used which tended not to
> do such tricks.

The only one on the IIe and IIc that kept biting me was that when
you type the word "the" too fast, you get "thje".  With the Extended
Keyboard II on the Macintosh or IIgs, there's some sort of intermittent
problem involving the letter O that results in dropped characters
instead, but I've never been able to figure out exactly what it is
you have to do to tickle it.

eric