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From: leech@alanine.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
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Subject: Re: Spilled on your keyboard? Wash it!
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In article <2478@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> bio_zwbb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dr. William B. Busa) writes:
>	Just wanted to share a (perhaps) non-obvious repair procedure
>which proved to work *very* well. After spilling a cup of coffee all over
>the keyboard of my Compaq (which elicited lots of beeping and pyrotechnic
>screen displays) I quickly powered down.

    Is it time for horror stories?  My boss spilled a Coke into my PC
keyboard some years ago.  After it dried, the biggest problem was
cleaning all the sticky crud off the keys so they would work again.
--
    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
"We were driving along, minding our own business, when there was a
 sudden flash of blue light which blotted out the stars. I thought it
 was a nuclear bomb going off and despaired for my career." - Keith Hughes