Re: Shell scripts

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <8aj506$fv7$1@news.enteract.com>,
Eric Fischer  <enf@pobox.com> 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.

My Ext II would always do "ou;" if I typed "out" too fast. I retired it in
favor of an AppleDesign. It has a membrane so unlike the Ext II, it won't
wear out.
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