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Replacement keys for MacPlus keyboard

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From: _D Andrew Reynhout_
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1989 20:22
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   Does anyone know of ANY source for replacement keyswitches for the Mac Plus
keyboard (if it makes any difference, that's the one with the numeric keypad
and the old, non-Battleship Grey/Platinum case)

   I'd like to avoid replacing the whole keyboard for one minor mistake...I
dropped the keyboard...(there's a spring on the end in the form of a cable, and
when you pull farther than you should without thinking while holding on to the
keyboard with one hand...)  Anyway, I broke off the ESC key.  Oh, sorry.  it's
not and ESC key..it's a `/~ key.  whatever.  The actual post is broken.  The
keycap itself is fine.  
   I took the keyboard apart (second time in 3.5 years..it was dusty!), and 
found that the switches were soldered in.  That's no big deal, I can wield a
soldering iron.

   I seem to remember from the discussion on mouse balls a few years ago
(anyone else remember THAT?!?  :-)) that there IS a supplier for these misc.
parts that no one thinks about until they make the foolish move of breaking/
losing them.

   Thanks in advance...
   Andrew



-- 
  Andrew Reynhout   (Internet: reynhout@wpi.wpi.edu)

  "Maybe if we pretend this never happened, they'll all just...go away."
                                           - Laurie Anderson
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From: reynhout@wpi.wpi.edu (_D Andrew Reynhout_)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Replacement keys for MacPlus keyboard
Summary: Where do I get 'em??
Message-ID: <5625@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 89 20:22:29 GMT
Reply-To: reynhout@wpi.wpi.edu (_D Andrew Reynhout_)
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Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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