 NEEDS HELP

     Here's an E mail message I received from Gene Welch.  
Can anyone out there help him out.
                    Jerry V.
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 Hi Jerry,

     Well, my ADAM has gone and broke itself. Maybe it's the 
component failure that Rich Drushel has been talking about, 
I really don't know yet.  Anyway, my ADAM will not recognize 
the keyboard(nothing happens when I press the keys) whenever 
I use Smartwriter. It works fine for all of the other 
applications that I have tried it on, lately. But, as soon as I boot 
Smartwriter(with the Hard Drive) the keyboard stops working. 
Even odder is the fact that the keyboard does work with the 
Electronic Typewriter.

     Anyways, since Smartwriter is my word processor of 
choice, this puts a crimp in my immediate ability to write the 
articles that I have floating around in my head, some of which 
are partly done(in Smartwriter).  So, I am wondering what 
format would be best to write them in for you to publish in the 
newsletter. I could use VDE under TDOS, then if necessary, 
convert them to EOS and mail them to you. Or, I could do them 
on this here PC, and e-mail them to you(I don't,as yet, have 
the ability to port them from PC to ADAM, or vice-versa).

     Well, let me know what would be best for you, it 
doesn't make much difference to me.

     Hopefully, I will get my ADAM and Smartwriter talking 
to each other soon.
                            Gene

     BTW - If you have any ideas on what may be my problem, 
I would love to hear'em.


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