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Author Re: IBM Model M keyboard and water
Michael Baldwin Bruce

2004-11-03, 8:56 am

bruce aka tholen@antispam.ham wrote in message news:<keUhd.59754$Kl3.35571@twister.socal.rr.com>...
> Greg writes:
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> That's why I want to get it back into working condition if at all
> possible. They just don't make them like that anymore.


lol! Let's hope there's only one of you, bruce. they don't want to make
you like you anymore. Judging by your number of posts, you aren't in any
working condition either.

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> I heard about somebody who took his keyboard apart and watched lots of
> little parts go "sprong" all over the place.


you heard, bruce? from whom, bruce? barnes, bruce?

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> The keytops aren't enough. The keytops cover another key-like piece of
> plastic, and those cover the springs. Removing the secondary key exposes
> the holes (and the springs, thus the danger of having little bits of
> stuff going everywhere). I'm told that when the water spill occurred,
> computer staff was called on to assist with my computer, and they used
> canned air to dry off the keyboard. Yeah, maybe the top. But there was
> a pool of water in the bottom of the case.


you shouldn't piss on your keyboard, bruce. its also unhygenic.

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> We might be able to pull a vacuum on it.


pull a vacumm, bruce? I heard its not the only thing you pull, bruce.

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> Whatever little exposed metal there is does not look corroded at all.
> Of course, there was a fair pit of hair and other debris that I was
> able to clean off the base.


what the XXXX have you being doing to your keyboard, bruce? Shagging it or
something?

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> Haven't tried to remove that piece of plastic yet.


why not, bruce?
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