Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov!tab29.larc.nasa.gov!scott From: scott@tab29.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Yelich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: Flakey 130XE keyboard Message-ID: Date: 23 Aug 90 13:02:01 GMT References: <306@sherpa.UUCP> Sender: news@abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov (USENET File Owner) Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 23665 Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: rac@sherpa.UUCP's message of 22 Aug 90 20:43:49 GMT >This sounds sorta like a heat problem and sorta like a mechanical >problem. Does anyone have any suggestions for him. One of my old XEs had this problem. (I guess it just comes from normal use.) I took my keyboard apart and cleaned the rubber key things (They look like the letter Y). I guess they get dusty. Again, I don't know why the keys would work sometimes and not other times... but I had the same symptoms and what I just explained fixed MY problem keyboard. I also had a problem with the little plastic sheet with the current lines on it eventually cracking in certain places. I didn't want to solder the thing because I was afraid the heat would actually MELT AWAY more of the plastic. I eventually just cut a paperclip (small paperclip) to get about a 1/4" section and then I just stuck that on top of where the gap was. I guess any open wire would work. My main problem was blowing the PIA chip by getting sloppy while making gadgets hardware devices to plug into the joystick ports. It's amazing what nifty things you think of when you have 8 8bit computers... most with 4 joystick ports! -- Signature follows. [Skip now] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott D. Yelich scott@[xanth.]cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1] After he pushed me off the cliff, he asked me, as I fell, ``Why'd you jump?'' Administrator of: Game-Design requests to ODU/UNIX/BSD/X/C/ROOT/XANTH/CS/VSVN/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------