Re: Looking for Help on the IIgs!

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Let me try this again...Columbus Freenet just "upgraded" to a version of
TIN that complains if I quote too much...

I don't remember whose response I am quoting 'cause I had to splice this
message together from little bits and pieces in my ANSITerm scrollback.  I
hate it when computers decide they know how to write better than I do. 

:>Jeremy@seaknet.alaska.edu (Jeremy Andrews) wrote:
:>Greetings...

:>It's been some time since I've used an Apple II, the computer that I
:>grew up on.  (I've been using Amiga's and Mac's for the last few years)
:>Recently I was at some friends place who have a IIgs for their family
:>computer, and they were having a number of problems that I offered to
:>help with.  It's great getting onto a IIgs again.

:>Some problems I've been unable to solve myself:

[SNIP]

:>Another quirk that i suspect is related is when going into the CDA
:>with ctrl-apple-esc and then into control panels, pressing return on any of
:>the selections responds as though I pressed return three times...  (e.g.,
:>it brings me into the panel, brings me back out, and then brings me back
:>in again, all rather quickly.)

:Jeremy, your friend's Apple IIgs keyboard is experiencing the
:symptoms of "sticky keys."  If this is the problem, you'll need
:to disassemble it and clean everything (lubricate the keyswitches
:and use soap and water on the keycaps and case).

Possible; checking with another keyboard is a good idea.  Another place to
look before you tear the keyboard apart is to check the keyboard settings   
in the control panel.  It sounds like a keybounce problem, but in your
case it sounds like it is incredibly consistent...keybounce often is not
consistent at all (anyone who has used a TRS-80 Model 1 knows what I
mean).  Check the keyboard repeat settings, and try increasing the delay
and reducing the speed.  Also, you might want to make sure that "fast
space/delete" keys is turned off.  I tried leaving that on once, and I
ended   up   writing   sentences  that  looked  like   this.  8-)

Just something else to check...

--Dave Althoff, ][.

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--Dave Althoff, ][.
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