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- From: jorgi@cs.uow.edu.au (George B Zamroz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Prodos 8 2.0.1 killing keyboard
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.120530.7729@cs.uow.edu.au>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 12:05:30 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.122438.29471@cs.uow.edu.au> <2fwB036V70DI00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
- Lines: 38
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- fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug28.122438.29471@cs.uow.edu.au> jorgi@cs.uow.edu.au (George B Zamroz) writes:
- >>Under some programs that use Prodos 8, I have found that the keyboard seems
- >>to get lost. No input gets accepted, and even the Reset key is disabled. I
- >>have also had the problem occur under the Orca shell. Anyone else having
- >>similar problems?
-
- >- If you have a //e, I don't know what's going wrong.
-
- >- If you have a //gs, wiggle your keyboard cable when it happens. Sometimes
- > the keyboard ADB connectors go bad.
-
- >- If you are running P8 from GS/OS, make sure you don't have Easy Access
- > installed (unless you need it). Ditto for CloseView.
-
- >General comment: if you want help diagnosing a problem, give as many details
- >as you can think of.
-
- The problem only started happening when I installed System 6.0 on my hard disk.
- If I boot off System 5.0.4 then everything is fine. Booting System 6.0 off
- floppy doesn't help. I don't have either Easy Access of CloseView installed, so
- they can't be the culprits. As for the ADB connectors, I think not since the
- problem is repeatable, and does not happen randomly. Two of the main cases
- that I have found this problem occurring are as follows:
-
- 1. Using the Rastan patch program to run Rastan of my hard disk. Once
- started, the keyboard is totally disabled. Everytime I try this happens.
-
- 2. Using the Duplicate command under the Orca shell.
-
- That's all I can come up with for the moment.
-
- P.S. Not all Prodos 8 applications are affected.
- --
- George B. Zamroz, University of Wollongong, Australia
- ex-Masters Student (Computer Science)
- Internet: jorgi@cs.uow.edu.au
-