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From: weiss@babbage.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: removal of beer from keyboard
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Date: 10 Jun 91 05:09:02 GMT
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In article <1991Jun6.212840.20166@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> rolf@sparc1 (Rolf Wilson) writes:
>  Someone I work with spilled some beer into a Mac Plus keyboard,
>and it has stopped working. He tried cleaning it with distilled
>water, but that did not work. Can anyone suggest a better
>method or solvent?

Well, I'm a-gonna tell you a story.  I used to work at the UCLA Bookstore,
in the computer division.  A guy came in with an ADB keyboard, which had the
"1" key (above the QWERTY) broken off, and told me how he and his girlfriend
were having a romantic dinner with champagne, and she accidentally dropped
the bottle, NECK DOWN, onto the keyboard.  After that, the keyboard behaved
as if it were drunk :)!  You type a character, and it sends a different code.
Net result:  It was still covered under AppleCare, so it got replaced for
free.  The tech laughed when he read the form (I put on it that the board
behaved as if it were drunk...I liked that), but he did say that when you
have something like that, your chances of fixing it properly are VERY slim
at best, and at worst you may do some damage to the ADB controller.  Granted,
you have a Plus, but I would suspect that you are risking similar damage.
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