Re: IIe Keyboard

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

Rubywand (rubywand@swbell.net) wrote:
: Bruce R. Baker writes ...
: > 
: > My experience is that this is more simple than it looks.  You have one
: > stuck key.  It is stuck down.  Have you opened the machine and moved the
: > keyboard?  If so you may have replaced it wrong, it is rubbing on one of
: > edges.  The key that is stuck is next to the edge.
: > 
: > If this does not apply to you, often pressing all the keys until it stops
: > (because by pressing on the right key, it comes unstuck) will work.
: > 

:      For sure, checking for a stuck key is a good idea!

:      In this particular case, the symptoms do not seem to fit a stuck key:

: > > ....
: > > Every time you push a key it keeps on repeating until you push another
: > > that continues to repeat. ....

:      Normally, a stuck letter, number, etc. key would be filling the 
: screen with A's, 9's, or whatever. Depending upon whether or not a keyboard 
: locks out other keys, a second key, say a V, would either not be recognized 
: or would be displayed along with the stuck key (like 999999999 <press V> 
: 9V9V9V9V9V9V9V <release V> 9999999999 ...).

:      Unless this particular IIe has a keyboard with the old REPEAT key and 
: this key is stuck (OR, the problem occurs only when running a particular 
: program) there would seem to be no stuck key which produces the symptoms 
: Keegan describes.

Rubywand...

I just tried an experiment with my enhanced //e, holding one key (thus
simulating a 'stuck' key) and trying other keys.  It does indeed function,
unexpectedly, exactly as Bruce described.  Try it!  8-)  I held the "A"
key, and got a repeating "A".  Still holding "A", I pressed "K".  I got a
single "K", then a brief pause, then the "K" repeated across the screen,
even though I was holding the "A" key.  Striking other keys had the exact
same result.  As I mentioned earlier, my first suspicion is a stuck key,
and if this is a beige ][e, the first place I'd look is the [`/~] key,
adjacent to the power light.

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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