OT: Help! Keyboard Problems

[Jim Patchell]

    Don't know where you live, but.....you should be able to fix this problem for about $10.  That is the price of a new keyboard.  The keytops kept flying off my old zeos computer, just went down to a computer show, picked up one _dirt_ cheap.

    In the future, if you spill anything on your keyboard, unplug it, take it to the sink, wash what you spilled into it out right away.  Shake it out real good.  If you have r/o water or a bottle of de-minerallized water, do a second washing with that.  Let it dry completely.  Quick action is what is needed.  Water, in general, will not
hurt the electronics.  It will definately do a lot less harm than coke or pepsi (or any other soft drink, that stuff is really nasty).

    -Jim

skinny bastard wrote:

> 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
> >------------------------------------------------
> >* Visit:http://www.silcom.com/~patchell/
> >*-----------------------------------------------
> >*If you didn't buy a home in Santa Barbara,
> >* You didn't pay enough!
> >------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
>
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