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Mira stacking and double strokes -- me or the machine???

by Debbie Taggart

Dec 4, 2008

I'm having a lot of problems with stacking, split strokes and double strokes (the the) when writing on my Mira. I've adjusted it every way I can think of. I have my stroke set as long as it can be. I have most of my individual keys set at 6 or 7 and I still get all this CRAP. Actually, when I push back the stroke length (the wheel at the front left inside), everything works pretty well except for occasional split strokes ("need" comes out TPHA / ED) and that danged bouncing T causing "the the" all the time. I also constantly stack the Question ID.

I'm wondering if anyone else has a problem like this with their Mira. I'm starting to think that it's my hands that are going and not the machine, but they feel fine. I'm just curious about other people's experience.

Debbie
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    Darline Marie West

    Debbie: I am having the EXACT same problem with the "T," and also the machine throws a "P" in there sometimes, too, without me hitting it, believe it or not. It is so frustrating when this happens when writing real-time. I'd love to take the test, but these would be added errors during testing I DO NOT NEED! Split strokes also are a problem for me. I must say, though, that my machine did not do that the first year or so. It is now two-and-a-half years old now, and I want to throw it out the window. I have set the individual keys, as you have, and I just can't set them beyond what I've already done or it goes crazy the "other" way. The stroke length wheel, I feel, is so subtle that it doesn't help me. So I guess what I'm trying to say is, no, I don't believe it's you. It is definitely the Mira. I will be now be calling Stenograph about this now, I guess, although I have heard others have had very little success with them. I have done all I can think of to use the settings to make the corrections. I am just waiting for the "miracle" machine to come out some day, hopefully before I retire.
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    Dec 10, 2008

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      Lisa Neal

      Debbie:

      I, too, have experienced some odd stroking issues with my Mira. And as I read the comments on this page I can see a pattern with some of the problems I have been experiencing. The O-O-O or the P-P-P, as well as the odd way it stacks two strokes, but only one of the letters in the first stroke is stacked onto the second stroke. This scares me, as my writer is not quite a year old.

      Please let us know the outcome of your experience with Stenograph.

      Lisa
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      Dec 11, 2008

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        Derek Hoagland

        I can only offer my experience with the MIRA. I have never seen it throw out a random triple stack of a single letter T-T-T or P-P-P. It does infact stack. I get alot of THEUPB instead of EUPB TH, 'in the' or a THOPB for 'on the' beyond those small issues, which I remember seeing on the paper machine I had in school.

        I love my machine. On the paper machine I had in school I was getting tendonitis over and over. When I switched to the MIRA it never came back. I absolutely love it. I love how short the stroke is. I have it set to as sensitive and shallow as possible.

        Derek
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        Apr 30, 2009