In article <2fwB036V70DI00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> 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.
I just bought a used GS with the problems described above. I checked the keyboard (three screws to open) and indeed both ADB connectors had bad solder joints.
A quick touch with a small soldering iron and a little solder fixed that problem. The dealer wanted $85 + $110/hr service. However this did not solve the
problem. I substituted a mouse from my Mac and everything worked perfectly.
Apparently a flakey mouse will create the same symptoms described.Needless
to say check both. The keyboard problem is common and very easy to fix.
I bought a new apple mouse but would instead recomend an ADB trackball which