On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 12:10 PM, Jim Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > ?!?!?!?!?! > > I do know there are a couple of different ROM variants because the first was buggy. But I haven't seen this problem on my WP-2s. -- John.
