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  2. Key rollover - Wikipedia

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    Key rollover is the ability of a computer keyboard to correctly handle several simultaneous keystrokes. A keyboard with n-key rollover (NKRO) can correctly detect input from each key on the keyboard at the same time, regardless of how many other keys are also being pressed. Keyboards that lack full rollover will register an incorrect keystroke ...

  3. List of keyboard switches - Wikipedia

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    As time goes on, there are more and more switches being developed and manufactured across the world. Some are by new manufacturers, some are collaborations between companies and manufacturers, and some are consumer made.

  4. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    Windows 3.1 displays a black screen of death instead of a blue one. [21] Some versions of macOS (notably OS X Lion) display a black screen of death instead of a kernel panic, usually pointed to a graphics card or sleep/wake issue, [40] it may also display a black screen when the operating system fails to boot properly. [41]

  5. Blinkenlights - Wikipedia

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    Blinkenlights on the NSA's FROSTBURG supercomputer from the 1990s Typical LED pattern of a Thinking Machines CM-5. The Connection Machine, a 65 536-processor parallel computer designed in the mid-1980s, was a black cube with one side covered with a grid of red blinkenlights; the sales demo had them evolving Conway's Game of Life patterns.

  6. Monochrome monitor - Wikipedia

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    An IBM computer with a green monochrome monitor Early Nixdorf computer with an amber monitor. A monochrome monitor is a type of computer monitor in which computer text and images are displayed in varying tones of only one color, as opposed to a color monitor that can display text and images in multiple colors.

  7. Caps Lock - Wikipedia

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    In Microsoft Windows, there are keyboard layouts, such as Swiss German, whose keys generate unrelated, non-uppercase symbols when pressed before ⇧ Shift. [9], creating a 5th level (and a 6th level when ⇪ Caps Lock is on and ⇧ Shift is pressed) for typing symbols on a single key. Below is an example using the Swiss German keyboard layout ...

  8. Virtual keyboard - Wikipedia

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    TreasuryDirect login screen, showing the virtual keyboard. The use of an on-screen keyboard on which the user "types" with mouse clicks can increase the risk of password disclosure by shoulder surfing, because: An observer can typically watch the screen more easily (and less suspiciously) than the keyboard, and see which characters the mouse ...

  9. Flicker vertigo - Wikipedia

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    Flicker vertigo, sometimes called the Bucha effect, is "an imbalance in brain-cell activity caused by exposure to low-frequency flickering (or flashing) of a relatively bright light." [ 1 ] It is a disorientation -, vertigo -, and nausea -inducing effect of a strobe light flashing at 1 Hz to 20 Hz, approximately the frequency of human brainwaves .