OT: Help! Keyboard Problems

[skinny bastard]

i'm_typing_this_with_no_spaces_because_my_gateway_keyboard_got_spilled_on._i_called_their_customer_service,_and_they_want_to_charge_50.00_for_a_new_one._I've_had_this_problem_before,_and_fixed_it_by_cleaning_the_contacts._This_time_they_look_oxidized._What_should_I_use_to_clean_them?_They're_just_contact_traces_on_clear_plastic_film.

Help!!_I_can't_write_a_'c'_'s'_or_a_space_without_copying_and_pasting!!

James



wrote:
>
> > >Toby Paddock wrote:
> >
> > > In cleaning up the garage (the...  horror), I ran across some old
> > > transistors.
> > > I got them in the late 60's I think from someone who got them from
> > > someone who got them from someplace.
> > > Anyway, here is a picture if anyone is interested:
> > >
> > > http://www.seanet.com/~tpaddock/images/old_trans_m.jpg   80K
> > > http://www.seanet.com/~tpaddock/images/old_trans_l.jpg   267K
> > >
> > > I'm guessing mostly germanium by the age and a quick
> > > ohmmeter check. Some may be newer parts, there is some
> > > obviously newer stuff in the same box.
> > >
> > > Also, I noticed that the leads of most of them are ferrous.
> > > They stick to my tweezers that somehow got magnetized.
> > >
> > > What would a distortion box using selenium rectifiers sound like?
> > > I think there may be some of those still hiding around here. :)
> > >
> > >  - -- -  Toby Paddock<
> >
> > Hi Toby:
> >
> > The two  rectangular black transistors with the clear plastic base in 
>the
> > upper right corner of the photo appear to be the Raytheon CK722.  That 
>was
> > the first transistor intended for the hobbyist market, and was popular 
>in
> > the early '50s.  A detailed history of this device is available at:
> >
> > http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/4724/index.html
> >
> > BTW, I sold a CK722 on Ebay for $40.00 last year, a good example of a
> > "collectible" type item.
> >
> > Terry Michaels
>
>     Please tell me that you are lying.  Tell me that is a big fib! :-)
>
>     I was given a transistor radio back in the late 60's that was made
>sometime in the 50's.  It was about the size of a lunchbox.  It was
>constructed like a tube radio, point to point wiring, the transistors were 
>in
>sockets.  Some of them were Ck722's.  I remember that because it was the 
>first
>time I had ever seen a real one.  There were a couple of other types in 
>there
>as well.  I threw the radio away!  One of the few times I threw a piece of
>junk away.  I kind of wonder if the thing would have actually been worth
>anything these days.
>
>--
>  -Jim
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