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From: ss60fhl@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Milo D. Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: How to fix keyboard?
Summary: Clean the mother.
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Date: 25 Nov 89 23:51:56 GMT
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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?
=>
=>Neal Scribner (ATT-BL, Holmdel NJ)


      Open up your keyboard and clean under the spacebar with
rubbing alcohol.  This worked for me for a while; but now almost
all my keys are faulty, though I've cleaned the keyboard several
times.  My keyboard's just old, I guess...
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