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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Mon, 12 Feb 90       Volume 90 : Issue  191
 
Today's Topics:
                  Atari 512st forsale  $200.00 ....
                          Documentation Only
                                  hi
                            Right Way?????
                         The 'PHANTOM TYPIST'
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Date: 12 Feb 90 19:53:57 GMT
From: mls@purdue.edu  (Michael Schneider)
Subject: Atari 512st forsale  $200.00 ....
Message-ID: <9634@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
 
For Sale
 
        Atari 512  .5 Meg  with 3.5 disk drive
 
        $200 + shipping
 
        This Machine has never been Used,  I bought it to play with
        MINIX, but I never got around to it.
 
Mike Schneider
 
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Date: 12 Feb 90 16:54:17 GMT
From: zephyr.ens.tek.com!orca.wv.tek.com!pogo!bluneski@uunet.uu.net  (Bob
 Luneski)
Subject: Documentation Only
Message-ID: <8532@pogo.WV.TEK.COM>
 
>"The only documentation from my dept. is sold as part of the developer's
>kit.  Mr. Badertscher was in error - unless this was an old message"
 
The "documentation only" only version IS the developers kit without MWC,
extended support, and TOS 1.4 Roms. It is available at a reduced price.
 
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*  Bob Luneski                                                             *
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Date: 12 Feb 90 19:36:26+0100
From: Torbjorn Ose <edbinn%dhmolde.uninett@nac.no>
Subject: hi
Message-ID: <50*edbinn@dhmolde.uninett>
 
help
 
 
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Date: 12 Feb 90 19:30:09 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ars3_cif@tut.cis.ohio-
 state.edu  (Aaron Sher)
Subject: Right Way?????
Message-ID: <5205@ur-cc.UUCP>
 
Try: Which path would a member of the other tribe suggest?
Then: Go the other way.
 
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Date: 12 Feb 90 20:11:59 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!wsflinn@tut.cis.ohi
 o-state.edu  (Scott Flinn)
Subject: The 'PHANTOM TYPIST'
Message-ID: <13352@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
 
In article <173@raider.MFEE.TN.US> dlh@raider.MFEE.TN.US (Dana L. Holt) writes:
>
> I just want to say that i've had my ST for 1 1/2 years. (1040STf) I write alot
>of source code and i've used many different editors, but i've never come across
>the phontom typist.
  ...
>Any ideas? Why doesn't this happen to me?
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I have seen the Phantom strike in both Word Writer and 1st Word Plus.  In
both cases, his appearance always immediately followed some keyboard
confusion on my part.  In particular, I would type too fast and botch it
up, try to backspace quickly, botch that up, try to type the correction,
generally just hitting an awful lot of keys in quick succession.  It's
kind of spooky the way the Phantom seems to get fed up with my
incompetence and begins to do the typing himself.  Unfortunately, he is
a much slower typist than me.
 
Has anybody else noticed any correlation between rapid sequences of
keystrokes (involving multiple backspaces) and the appearance of the Phantom?
 
--
Me:      Scott Flinn                   /  "If it doesn't fit, force it.
Domain:  wsflinn@watcgl.waterloo.edu  /  If it breaks, then it didn't
UUCP:    watmath!watcgl!wsflinn      /  fit anyway."
 
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