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From: sauder@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (8908)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: How to fix keyboard?
Message-ID: <4136@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 23 Nov 89 16:22:31 GMT
References: <6058@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: sauder@aplcen (Sauder Clyde Jeffrey 688-8908)
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In article <6058@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> nms@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (n.m.scribner) writes:
>I have a c64, vintage about 1986, whose space bar does not function
>every time it is struck; frequently, it takes serveral taps to get a space.
>The key does not seem to stick, or show any other obvious mechanical problem.
>Has anyone had experience fixing similar problems?
>
>Thanks,
>Neal Scribner (ATT-BL, Holmdel NJ)

I once had the same vintage 64 AND the same problem.  I used mine as a
word processor and really banged on the keys.  In fact, I wanted a 128
so bad that when this happened, I just bought a 128.  But I loaned my 64
to an Electrical Engineer friend of mine who simply pulled all they keys
off the keyboard and cleaned the contact points.  Now it works great!  He
said it wasn't very hard.


-- 
Jeff Sauder	sauder@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu