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From: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New 2000 keyboards ... is there a problem?
Message-ID: <19724@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: 17 Dec 87 00:03:44 GMT
References: <19665@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Organization: Amdahl Corporation,  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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Keywords: Quality inspection testing big PF-keys another trade-in deal :-)
Summary: The FCC strikes again ...?

In article <19665@amdahl.amdahl.com>, I wrote:
> 
> Two people I know have recently purchased 2000's.
> 
> 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).


Pete Jordan provided a little more info on the 2000's new keyboard
problems on our internal Amiga conference:

> Amiga 2000 Keyboard bug
>
> Thad from the FAUG board said that the new A2000 keyboard has an
> overengineered RFI problem fix.  There are two monster capacitors on the
> new A2000 keyboards that screw up the rise time of some signals. He
> believes the part designations silkscreened on the PC board are
> c900 and c901.  A service memorandum is being sent from Commodore
> to all authorized dealers detailing the correct fix to the problem.

'Twould be nice if CBM could post the service memo to the net, for
the benifit of those people who are technically qualified to make the
changes themselves ...


My 2000's old-style keyboard is manufactured by Cherry, Inc., a major OEM
of keyboards, switches, and the like to other companies.  I'm curious if
the new keyboard is also from Cherry, or somebody else?  Anyone snap their
new keyboard unit apart yet?

/kim


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