So, if anyone recalls the issue I posted about here a couple of months ago...
I'd been trying out a WP-2 as a quieter notetaking device but was having some
issues with the keyboard - extraneous characters would come up whenever I typed
quickly. The following errors are easily repeatable:
- any word ending in 'ing' becomes 'ing7'
- the sequence 'rea' becomes 'resa' and two l's end up with an equals sign
between them (such that 'really' becomes 'resal=ly' almost every single time)
- 'his' becomes 'hirs'
- most times when I type the word 'in' (so you get I N <space>) the cursor
jumps up a line as though one had hit the cursor up key and subsequent typing
is inserted at that position in the prior line
I assumed there must be some kind of defect in this machine (cracked keyboard
circuit sheet?) such that typing quickly causes movement in the machine and the
intermittent connection generates spurious keystrokes. This was also suggested
by several people here.
I opened up the keyboard and the flexible PCB looks fine. Cleaned all the
contact points with alcohol. No change in behaviour.
I put it aside for a while until I saw another cheap one come across ebay, and
bought it for parts.
Got it today. It does exactly. the. same. thing.
?!?!?!?!?!
jim
