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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: Help for Moving Cursor
Message-ID: <296@terak.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 10:53:01 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 25 10:53:01 1985
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Organization: Terak Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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> Does anyone know what to do for a perpetually moving cursor?  
> We were using a cartridge game earlier today.  Later, when we
> turned on the computer by itself, the cursor was moving
> constantly,  left to right, down a line, left to right, etc. 

Have you checked for a stuck key (especially the space bar)?
The space bar is somewhat vulnerable.  Because it is big, it
is often used by games for a huge "fire" button.  But because
it is big, it requires unusual hardware to suspend it.
Sometimes the hardware comes undone under heavy "repetitive fire"
pounding.
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Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug