Re: Help (What could cause this?)

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <D3sBK0.Bv0@actrix.gen.nz> dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David
Empson) writes:
>In article <J+zbbZZ.sjc@delphi.com>, Stephen Carpenter  <sjc@delphi.com> wrote:
>> I have a ROM 1 GS and bought an extended keyboard from computer city
>> some time ago.  It is a generic keyboard with good feel.  Here is my
>> problem: 
>> 	Every once and a whle the message "welcome datacomp" appears AS
>> IF I HAD TYPED IT.  [snip]
>> This only happens with this keyboard and it is the only one that I
>> have (The old one iwelcome datacomps broken).
>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>An example of the problem I assume?  It just happens at any time?
>
>It sounds like a "feature" of the keyboard, perhaps a debugging
>facility, that is never invoked on a Mac, but due to minor differences
>in the way the IIgs reads the keyboard, it happens to invoke this
>message from time to time.

I've read about this keyboard somewhere...I think it was on comp.risks.
Apparently the "welcome datacomp" message really is a "feature" of the
keyboard (designed, I suppose, as some kind of "advertisement" for the
keyboard's manufacturer), and will always appear, just as if typed by hand,
whenever the keyboard is idle for long enough.

A dangerous misfeature, if you ask me.  Think what might happen if your
computer is idling in a program where the "w" key is attached to some
potentially destructive command...

               - Neil Parker
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