I don’t mind the “stiffness” of the WP-2 keyboard, but I can’t stand the 
“ghosting characters” issue.  I’ve been through about four different WP-2s, and 
all of them would randomly insert characters when I was typing.  Absolutely 
inexcusable for a dedicated word processor.

Cam



> On Jan 30, 2019, at 13:37, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 1:22 PM Anthony Coghlan <[email protected] wrote:
>> Thanks, John - I see a brief mention of that in the service manual also.  
>> I’ll take a chance on hopefully that being the case, or something else 
>> relatively easy to debug and fix. 
>> 
>> Convincing my wife of the wisdom of my decision or the need for “yet another 
>> vintage gadget” might end up being the more difficult part.
> 
> 
> At least they're cheap and compact. How much is a Wp2 now? When I was in 
> acquisition mode they were about $14.
> 
> Also make sure you plan to spend another few dollars for the ram upgrade to 
> 128k. 
> 
> One nice thing about the wp2 is it can read and write files to Tpdd 
> emulators. LaddieAlpha is fully tested with wp2
> 
> My only problem with wp2 is I wish the keyboard were less stiff. 
> 
> -- John. 

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