04-18-2021, 01:15 PM
The Interact, like many other computers of the time, used the main CPU for keyboard decoding. But keyboards with separate processors built in for decoding were already in use, and are the norm now. I don't know when keyboards started having dedicated microprocessors. But for a time, RS232 terminals and then keyboards were the norm, and every RS232 terminal or keyboard has some kind of processing, discreet component or microprocessor based.
You could probably fix this problem in software. But you shouldn't have to; it's an error in the firmware. I would try a different version of it. I wonder if it's possible to revert to an earlier version. I thought someone had an open source one that you could modify at will. That might be the way to go.
If you fix this problem in the operating system, you will have to do that for every operating system that you might use, now and in the future.
You could probably fix this problem in software. But you shouldn't have to; it's an error in the firmware. I would try a different version of it. I wonder if it's possible to revert to an earlier version. I thought someone had an open source one that you could modify at will. That might be the way to go.
If you fix this problem in the operating system, you will have to do that for every operating system that you might use, now and in the future.