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

2004-11-06, 3:56 am

bruce aka tholen@antispam.ham the troll wrote in message news:<VkLhd.56915$Kl3.54596@twister.socal.rr.com>...
> Well, some worker spilled water in a room one floor above my office,


you mean someone actually works there? Unlike you, bruce.

> and it leaked through the floor, dripping right into my computer
> keyboard. As misfortunate would have it, I was out of town when the
> incident occurred, but the computer was on. When I returned, the
> computer was beeping continuously, a condition that I could stop by
> unplugging the keyboard. Plugging it back in caused the beeping to
> resume. The system was unresponsive to keystrokes.


its sick of your stupid digests too. Lets hope it now beeps until
the end of time.

>
> When I turned the keyboard over to remove the screws, a fair bit of
> water got dumped onto my lap,


ha, ha, ha! you idiot! lol

> enough that I suspect that the
> underside of the small circuit board was in contact with the water.
> Based on the time of the report of the water spill, I suspect that
> the keyboard case had water in it for a full 24 hours.


and nothing you say hold water.

>
> I have thoroughly cleaned the keyboard and dried any source of water
> that I can see, but it's still not working properly. Pressing certain
> keys will trigger sequences of characters, so it's not completely dead,
> thus I have some hope that it might be restored to working condition.
> I have grown very fond of the feel of the IBM Model M keyboard, so I'm
> prepared to go to some lengths to try and get it back into working
> condition. So, first of all, any suggestions on what else I might try
> myself? If that doesn't work, does anybody know of someone who does
> repair work on the Model M keyboard?


ha, ha, ha! you must be joking! you might as well try and find someone
who thinks OS/2 is a great operating system for running fortran programs.
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