Re: [stella] more keyboard nonsense

Subject: Re: [stella] more keyboard nonsense
From: Chris Wilkson <ecwilkso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 17:45:26 -0500
In message <3.0.32.20001106111826.00689550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "John K. Harvey"
 writes:
>477.888 cycles = 6.288 scanlines?
>
>Is it true?  Why the long wait?

I don't know the specific timings of the keyboard controllers, but one
generally has to wait for mechanical switches to stop bouncing.  The
contact is not a clean one, but rather a series of brief contacts
as the contacts close, then bounce a part, then close, then bounce...
This continues until the spring finally overcomes the switch bounce.

-Chris

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