Re: Keyboard

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From: Terrance Richard Boyes
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 00:00

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Angus Manwaring <angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On 29-Jun-99 01:30:54, Tim Jackson said
>>One of the keys on my (admittedly fairly old and well-used) A1200 is
>>starting to fail.  Oddly enough, it's my escape key. It's weird, it
>>doesn't work at all no matter how hard you hit it but then if you keep
>>hammering it for a while it suddenly starts again.

>>Any suggestions as to what I could do to extend it's life a bit more?

> Probably nothing to do with it, but I used to get probs with my Escape key

Well you can try stripping it down and cleaning, not sure how 
easy it is to do with the A1200 keyboard (I managed a few extra
months with my A4000 when it exhibited similar symptoms).

-- 
<URL:http://www.pierrot.co.uk/>                                  Team AMIGA
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Subject: Re: Keyboard
Date: 1999/06/30
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