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John Earland · 7th Feb 2020, 11:22 am

Thanks everyone, sorry for the late replies -I've been at work!
I really like the ideas of a pattern of key strokes and returns - hadn't thought of that!!

So here is the pattern:

Pressing QW, AS, ZX returns nothing - not even the cursor moves

Pressing EDC produces RFV - so the next characters along

Pressing RFV actually produces RFV

Similarly Pressing TGB produces YHN and YHN produces YHN

Pressing UJM produces IK, with IK, producing IK,

Pressing OL; produces P:? with P:? producing P:? as expected

All of these things happen whether the SHIFT key is activated or not - the characters remain uppercase

On the number pad moving in a line downwards you get:

Pressing 7410 produces 852. - the next column along although just occasionally - like when I first tried this this morning, the 1 returned a 1 followed by a . Now it just returns 852.

852. returns 852.

and 963- returns the expected /*+=

So there is a definate pattern!

7th Feb 2020, 11:22 am	#12
John Earland Hexode Join Date: May 2013 Location: Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, UK. Posts: 442	Re: Commodore PET 3016 Thanks everyone, sorry for the late replies -I've been at work! I really like the ideas of a pattern of key strokes and returns - hadn't thought of that!! So here is the pattern: Pressing QW, AS, ZX returns nothing - not even the cursor moves Pressing EDC produces RFV - so the next characters along Pressing RFV actually produces RFV Similarly Pressing TGB produces YHN and YHN produces YHN Pressing UJM produces IK, with IK, producing IK, Pressing OL; produces P:? with P:? producing P:? as expected All of these things happen whether the SHIFT key is activated or not - the characters remain uppercase On the number pad moving in a line downwards you get: Pressing 7410 produces 852. - the next column along although just occasionally - like when I first tried this this morning, the 1 returned a 1 followed by a . Now it just returns 852. 852. returns 852. and 963- returns the expected /*+= So there is a definate pattern!