John, you were right... The screen flashing was just due to a low (actually, none installed) backup battery. The WP-2 arrived today and is in practically pristine cosmetic shape and seemingly perfect working order - a lucky find for a very reasonable price. I will want to upgrade the RAM, but that’s simple and inexpensive to do. Not sure what type of memory cards were used - looks too small to be PCMCIA.
As for the typing / typo insertion bug, maybe I type too slowly for that to even happen. :) Or maybe this was a later model. I haven’t experienced that issue yet. So, I’m a happy camper. Best wishes, Anthony On Wednesday, January 30, 2019, Jim Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > > > 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. > > I've also had this issue - I bought one for note-taking, which it seemed > ideal for with the quieter keyboard (although I don't like the feel > compared with an m100), and was very disappointed the first time I actually > tried typing fast and it was inserting extra characters. > > I asked about it here and nobody else had experienced it, so I bought > another one. Same issue. > > If it helps with troubleshooting and/or creating a ROM-based fix as John > alluded to, I found that the characters are not random, but always follow > specific sequences. I don't have mine with me right now but I could > quickly do some typing once I get home and follow up this post with the > common typos it creates - they're easy enough for me to reproduce, I just > can't remember them off the top of my head. > > I'm guessing that it's related to incorrectly decoding the keyboard output > when too many keys are down at once (I think three). Analyzing my own > typing process, I see that never having to type on a mechanical typewriter > made me never have to work on being fast while pressing and releasing each > key in sequence to prevent jamming. I'm often pressing sequences of two or > three keys nearly at once - they make contact in the sequence of the > letters needed, but two or three of them could be closed at any given time > because I haven't released them yet. > > Most of the typos can be fixed with search and replace, because they are > predictable, but one which I do remember well (because it's particularly > annoying) is when I type 'in ' (I-N-SPACE) the wp-2 inserts an up-arrow > keystroke after the space. You glance down to find that everything you > typed after that space is being inserted in the middle of the previous > line... GRRRR. This doesn't happen if you just hit I N SPACE individually, > even fairly quickly, but if you sort of chord them the way I type, it > happens quite repeatably. > > (I should note that I type the same way on every keyboard and this is the > only machine I've ever had this problem on. M100 and T200 handle it just > fine. I don't know if it's a ROM problem or if it's something weird about > the way the keyboard matrix is laid out or what...) > > > > > > > > jim >
