🚀 go-pugleaf

Angus Manwaring wrote the following text on 29 Jun 99 18:03:42 +0500:
> 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?

"Ctrl [" might be an alternative or a little proggy called Osk for
real emergencies. I spent about a week using that before I could get a
new keyboard. Not something I would really want to do again.

> Probably nothing to do with it, but I used to get probs with my Escape key
> because if I'd unscrewed the 1200 and re-assembled it, the Escape key,
> being right in the corner used to get trapped in the down position. It
> made reading text files in Opus a real challenge until I worked out what
> the problem was.  :)

I'v reassembled four 1200's, all the keyboards wanted to slide to the
right, I wonder if there is any out there that swing the other way.
> 
>                   All the best,
>                         Angus Manwaring.
Jon