CompuServe Messages

Your "… when first bootng up the Amiga. It takes several minutes to get the keyboard to work" reminds me of a similar problem I had recently. With my original keyboard. I had slightly ruined the 8520 in charge of my A2000's parallel port. (Just enough to make the output of one pin erratic so I frequently got wrong letters–and worse, wrong control codes–when I tried to print.) Believing (incorrectly) that 8520s were no longer available, I bought an old A1000 and used the 8520s in it. Both gave the same results: I could print fine, but it took anywhere from three to 15 minutes for the keyboard to become operable! In the meantime, if I had a shell activated, it might choose a letter display and just keep typing shellsful of it, over and over. A couple of times, the mouse indicator arrow "fell" to the bottom or left marging of the screen. A really new 8520 fixed everything up. That probably wouldn't help you, but how come you're using the Northgate keyboard? Bart Mathias