Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!evax!cs4344af From: cs4344af@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Fuzzy Fox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: C128 keyboard needed, 1541's for sale Message-ID: <1991Apr2.095602.14881@evax.arl.utexas.edu> Date: 2 Apr 91 09:56:02 GMT References: <1991Apr1.193121.18966@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington Lines: 19 In article <1991Apr1.193121.18966@nntp-server.caltech.edu> rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop) writes: > >Before you spend the likely $60 to get a new keyboard unit, try cleaning your >keyboard. I had my A key die, and called around looking for a new keyboard >unit, and they were ridiculously expensive. Eventually I found a guy who >said that the problem is often dirty contacts. Unfortunately, this is usually not the problem, at least in my experience. The reason that keys have died on me is because the contacts underneath have become so flattened or worn out that they will simply not conduct electricity anymore. My other 128 still has this problem, despite cleanings. If anyone finds a source of cheap 128 keyboars, I would like to know. -- David DeSimone, aka "Fuzzy Fox" on some networks. /!/! INET: an207@cleveland.freenet.edu / .. Q-Link: Fuzzy Fox / --* Quote: "Foxes are people too! And vice versa." / ---