[Coco] keyboard test

Bob Devries devries.bob at gmail.com
Tue Aug 11 20:40:21 EDT 2020


These are the keys involved:

G O W <SPACE> 7 / SHIFTx2

It's hard to type anything meaningful when on row appears to be missing.

Hard part is that it's not just one computer..
I'm goung to do the same test on the Coco2 to see how that behaves with 
the supposedly faulty keyboard.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia


On 2020-08-12 9:52 am, Rick Ulland wrote:
> It is not an entire row or column (8x7)? That makes the stock PIA, 
> connector, mylar ribbon solutions a hard sell. Ummm... something about 
> the folded mylar sheet inside?
> 
> This might be fun. What keys are they? I've got some open keyboards 
> around to ponder.
> 
> -ricku
> CoNect
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/11/20 3:37 AM, Bob Devries wrote:
>> Hi all.
>> Is thre any utility programme which will test for a faulty keyboard?
>>
>> I have fighting s couple pf Coco 3 keyboards which appear to be 
>> missing a couple keys; always the same keys and different computers.
>>
>> I believe it's to do with rows and columns and the PIA. he computers 
>> in question have been in less than favourable conditions.
>>
>> Regards, Bob Devries
>> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>>
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