Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!dorm.rutgers.edu!adishian From: adishian@dorm.rutgers.edu (Aram Adishian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Bad Keyboards in a Lab Environment Message-ID: Date: 31 Jan 91 21:18:20 GMT Organization: Rutgers University New Brunswick Lines: 26 Here at Rutgers, we have general access Macintosh labs that see a high number of users. However, we have noticed we are getting a much higher than normal failure rate on our Apple Standard Keyboards recently. The purpose of this post is two-fold, first to see if anyone else is having this high failure rate, the other to see if anyone has any advice. The problem's symptoms are just that the keyboard will stop working. The mouse which is run out the keyboard will sometimes freeze up when this happens, but sometimes continue working. Sometimes swtiching which port in the back of the Mac is being used will cure this, or normal fiddling with the cables where they enter the port on the keyboard will fix the problem for a while. Our repair people have replaced ports, swapped motherboards in the keyboards, sometimes sucessfully, other times not. Is this normal wear and tear? Could someone offer some insight into what is going on with the keyboard and why the problem does not seem to have one good cure or in the case of the attached mouse, one good symptom. advTHANKSance, Aram Adishian adishian@dorm.rutgers.edu