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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Cleaning failing keyboard (classic mac)
Message-ID: <2747@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 90 18:47:08 GMT
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In article <32099@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>
>I'm frankly disappointed that Apple would choose such crummy Alps switches
>for their keyboard.  They're almost guaranteed to fail if placed in
>a dusty environment, such as my house.  2 keyboards out of 2, in my case.
>
>What's the matter with you shitheads at Apple, don't you use your own
>stuff?  Aren't you aware how quickly it fails?  Or is that how you want it
>to be?  I should mention that I found a rather surprising amount of
>rust on the metal frontispiece.  There were actually flakes of rust 
>sitting in the bottom of the plastic housing.  They looked like termite
>droppings.  I suppose you guys saved at least $0.01 on not giving the
>metal part a proper coating.  Just goes to show what happens when a 
>product is designed by accountants not engineers.

	With the name calling you use, How do you expect anyone to
	take you seriously? I've used Apple Keyboards on multiple Mac's
	for years. They get dusty, dirty, etc, just like anything else.
	They have NEVER failed. I suspect that you have a mess beyond
	the average mess and it would be better if you kept your house
	cleaner than saying that Apple makes crummy keyboards and other
	foolish statements that have no basis in fact. Just because you
	have had poor luck with Apple keyboards just means you are the
	exception to the rule. I think I read or hear about 6 broken
	keyboards a year or less. This is far less than any other problem
	that is real, like the poor power supply in the Plus.. that
	is something to complain about. I see msgs about those all the
	time...
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Norm Goodger				SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862
3Com Corp.				Co-SysOp FreeSoft RT - GEnie.
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