TI Programmer - Red LED - Key bounce

[Paul Berger (Canada)]

Bouncing keyboards where epidemic in the LED TIs of that vintage, and even some of the early LCDs. I bought a LCD programmer in hopes of escaping that blight only to find it had the same problem and upon opening it up found it had the same type of keyboard. Joerg tells me what I should get is the LCD Programmer II. I knew a guy who used to be an engineer at TI, but not in the calculator division, in the days of the red LED programmer and he told me the engineers in his area would smuggle in HP and other calculators rather than use TIs because of the bad keyboards.