#: 4824 S10/Tandy CoCo
    02-Jul-90  06:33:31
Sb: #Mouse vs. Keyboard
Fm: James Jones 76257,562
To: All

Help!  Has anyone seen the following symptoms before?

My CoCo was chugging along nicely.  I decided to interrupt the B&B repack (it
hasn't made it quite halfway through my 30 Mbyte drive yet in about 18 hours of
runtime) and dial up a few places.  The repack stopped in reasonable order
(well...it does have this habit of leaving "." entries in some directories
wrong, but I can fix that with ded), and I was in fact about to fire up ded
when I found that what I was typing was being ignored.  I powered down, pulled
the CoCo out, opened it up and pulled and reseated the plastic ribbon connector
from the keyboard to the circuit board, and just hooked it up to the monitor
again to try it out.  Hot dog, it worked.

Plug everything back in again and power up.  It doesn't work.

Experimentation shows that the killer is not the printer connection, as I
suspected (after all, that's the other half of the PIA, right?), but the
high-res mouse adapter.  If I leave it unplugged, all looks well.  If I plug it
in, I can't type at my CoCo.

Any ideas?  I really would like to use my mouse.  (I guess for completeness's
sake I should try the mouse without the adapter.)

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