Thank you James, for your excellent input.
I now remember that at one stage the space bar was affected which is
almost in the same row. I will borrow another keyboard and see if the
problem recurs. It also seems strange that the enter key is faulty, but
never the return key.
The environment is clean and stable.
A new keyboard is looking more like the answer.
The next time it happens I will make more observations and post the
eventual answer to the list.
Regards
Greg Manzie
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On 06 Sep 2004, at 11:10 AM, James Devenish wrote:
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on Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 10:59:49AM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
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on Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 10:40:05AM +0800, Greg Manzie wrote:
The e, d, c and enter keys would hang and sometimes not work at all.
[...]
it is probably a bit hard to explain why so many keys have failed
Actually: note that 'e', 'd' and 'c' all form a column on the keyboard.
Generally, the natural arrangement of buttons in keyboards and keypads
is as a 'matrix'. While I don't know about Apple keyboards, a
traditional construction and operation of matrices is based around a
"row/column" design. Therefore, failures affecting a column or failures
affecting a row would be a veritable 'calling card' of hardware
failure.
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