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From: hundt@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Hundt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: dead keyboard
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Date: 11 Dec 90 00:57:59 GMT
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|I have a standard ADB keyboard which has died. I have located the problem. The
|microcontroller (8048HC541) is dead. This is a standard 8 bit controller
|made by Philips, NEC, etc, and costs a mere few dollars. Certainly better

|The person I spoke to said that I would not be able to purchase the IC, rather
|I'd have to buy a whole new keyboard. "Why?" I asked. The response was,

So, boycott them: buy somebody else's keyboard.  Still not cheap,
though.  Maybe someone here has a spare keyboard...?


-Tom Hundt