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Article #767Re: Help needed with Sinclair QL
From: Kees van der Wal
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:42
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:42
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In article <1993Jan13.144236.11271@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, dup@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes: > I have a 10-year-old Sinclair QL with no history of giving problems. After not > having touched it for a year, I found seven keys to be dead. A knowledgeable > friend opened it up and established that it was nothing mechanical -- everything > between keyboard and the plugs into the motherboard seems to be working. > The whole keyboard is now dead, which, I am assured, is consistent with an > electronic fault. > > Can anyone help, even if just with an address of somewhere, preferably near > Oxford or London, that repairs QLs? One of the more common faults is that the keyboard membrane gets brittle and if the plastic cracks also one or more of the metallic tracks on the foil are interrupted. The most common place for this to happen is the sharp bend at the rear side. A good source for repairs, help and a new membrane is TF Services, 12 Bouverie Place, London W2 1RB phone: (071) 724 9053 bbs: (071) 706 2379 Succes, <kees>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!spider.research.ptt.nl!research.ptt.nl!walvdrk_r From: walvdrk_r@research.ptt.nl (Kees van der Wal) Subject: Re: Help needed with Sinclair QL Message-ID: <1993Jan25.174259.1@research.ptt.nl> Sender: usenet@spider.research.ptt.nl (USEnet News) Nntp-Posting-Host: dnlts0.research.ptt.nl Organization: PTT Research, The Netherlands References: <1993Jan13.144236.11271@vax.oxford.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:42:59 GMT Lines: 26