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From: sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New 2000 keyboards ... is there a problem?
Message-ID: <19628@linus.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 87 23:25:03 GMT
References: <19665@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA
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In-reply-to: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com's message of 15 Dec 87 14:18:06 GMT

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In article <19665@amdahl.amdahl.com> kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes:

> Two people I know have recently purchased 2000's.  One came from Mountain
> Software in North Carolina, the other from a shipment just delivered to a
> Palo Alto, CA dealer.
> 
> Both people have mentioned problems with their cursor keys acting "funny"
> (one said he had to hit a cursor key twice in WordPerfect in order for it
> to be recognized [or something close to that], and the other person had a
> similar [though slightly different] problem).  Both of these people are
> experienced Amiga owners.
> 
> There have also been a couple of postings to the net about keyboard/cursor
> problems on 2000's, so it seems that someone at CBM (hi, Dave) might want
> to check into this.
> 

Yes, I had an even worse problem with my new A2000 keyboard cursor
keys.  When pressed, each "arrow" key transmitted the proper escape
sequence, followed by all of the characters you would get if you typed
across one of the keyboard rows backwards!  (That is, "][poiuytrewq
", for example.)

The dealer (The Memory Location in Wellesley MA) promptly replaced the
keyboard with a different keyboard which did work properly.
(By the way, I have always found The Memory Location's service and
support to be very good; although, of course, their prices are
somewhat higher than mailorder.)


Steven Litvintchouk
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