[Coco] Weird CoCo 2 keyboard problem -- any ideas?

[Arthur Flexser]

Very strange.  I suppose one question one might investigate is whether the
shifted / is detected at all, but misidentified as a nonprinting character,
versus whether it is entirely unseen.  What happens if you run

10 PRINT ASC(INKEY$);: GOTO 10

and type a question mark?

Art

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:46 PM, John W. Linville
<linville at tuxdriver.com>wrote:

> I just discovered a weird keyboard problem on one of my CoCo 2 boxes.
> Before I dig into, I thought I might ping the list to see if anyone
> thinks it sounds obvious or familiar...
>
> The box in question doesn't seem to recognize when a type a '?'.
> PIA problem, right?  Well, could be...but it recognizes '/' (i.e. the
> same physical key) with no problem.  And it recognizes all the other
> keys on the same row and all on the same column, and all of those
> work with the Shift key depressed as well.
>
> So, it is just this single key that fails to respond and only when
> the Shift key is pressed as well.  Any ideas?  Am I overlooking
> something obvious?
>
> Thanks for any informed suggestions that you might provide!
>
> John
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