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Article #186Re: cleaning the keyboard
From: Chad Price
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 1990 14:24
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 1990 14:24
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In <3540@husc6.harvard.edu> ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani) writes: > What's the consensus on cleaning the key contacts? Too many >keys are getting too unreliable and popping individual caps looks to >be potentially destructive... Maybe dip the whole thing :) > Dan Lanciani > ddl@harvard.* from past experience, go ahead & pop the keys (carefully). I would however be reluctant to remove the space bar, as I did once & had real problems putting it back on. BTW it was on an IBM AT keyboard - one of the originals. Some of my friends have also disassembled the keyboard on an Apollo (3500) & put it back together with no ill effects except that it works better now. Chad Price price@fergvax.unl.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!rutgers!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!hoss!mandala!price From: price@mandala.unl.edu (Chad Price) Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100 Subject: Re: cleaning the keyboard Message-ID: <price.648397485@mandala> Date: 19 Jul 90 14:24:45 GMT References: <3540@husc6.harvard.edu> Sender: news@hoss.unl.edu (Network News Administer) Organization: University of Nebraska, Computing Resource Center Lines: 19