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.
