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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Spilled on your keyboard? Wash it!
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Date: 11 Sep 89 16:40:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Sep 11 11:40:00 1989



>	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. 
>So I took
>the back off the keyboard, unplugged the cord from the pc board within,
>and removed the board (plus attached keys) from the keyboard housing. I
>then flooded the board with *copious* amounts of **distilled** water until
>all traces of coffee were gone.

You should read the routine maintainence instructions for older,
tube-type (1965-ish) Tektronix scopes: The first step says to
rinse the whole scope in distilled water, they dry in warm air!!!!!

Doug McDonald