So I finally got my laptop back from Gateway today, for the second time, and this time it appears they actually did the required repairs rather than simply blanking the hard drive.
And it's as good as new but for one endearing little defect, best demonstrated by my e-mail of two minutes ago to my good friends at Gateway e-Support:
Hello Gateway!I think I'll be sticking to Ashley's computer a wee bit longer. Posted by FLOG at July 14, 2004 1:22 AM
Ive just received my la\pto\p back from your re\pair facility. The hard drive now a\p\pears to be working alright, and Im quite ha\p\py about that, but as you may have noticed the keyboard is acting funny. I cant ty\pe quote marks, a\postro\phes, or question marks, and the letter \p and some other keyboard features are ty\ping wrong. For exam\ple,
'-zero comes out ]0
'-minus sign is '-
'-left bracket is /[
'-right \parenthesis is })
'-\plus sign, question mark, quote marks and right bracket dont work at all.
What can I do about this (question mark})
Thanks,
Daniel |P. Atkinson
Niiiiiiiiiiice! I'm surprised you were able to actually log in and post that.
Posted by: phooeyhoo at July 14, 2004 4:17 AMWell, as noted, I'm using Ashley's computer right now. (Although it's also from Gateway, so who knows for how long?)
But the strange thing is, when I type that's how things appear on the screen to me, and that's how they are transmitted to others via e-mail and web postings -- but for some reason the problem did not interfere with logging into Yahoo Mail. (username: "d_p_atkinson", or "d'_\p'_atkinson" as my keyboard reckoned it.) Any ideas, Dr. Nguyen?
Posted by: FLOG™ at July 14, 2004 4:25 AM