Re: IBM Model M keyboard
- From: ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)
- Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 14:45:21 GMT
If you can't succeed in getting it working 100% right, how about a replacement?
I have a stack of them here. Use one myself. Contact me at
ben_myers@xxxxxxxxxxx ... Ben Myers
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 01:29:32 GMT, tholen@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>I have a 17-year-old IBM Model M keyboard that I would like to
>continue using because it has a great "feel" to it. However,
>it has been malfunctioning intermittently. The latest failure
>mode is for the following keys to not work:
>
> asdf jkl; \
>
>and on the numeric keypad:
>
> 123
>
>During the transition from functioning to malfunctioning, the
>asdf sequence was triggered without being touched, and then the
>\ character kept repeating until such time as another key was
>pressed, when the repetition stopped. I have been able to
>recover from malfunctions by opening the case, then removing and
>reinserting the ribbon connectors, though quite recently, the
>keyboard seemed to recover by itself, which suggests to me that
>perhaps it might be a cable problem.
>
>Anyway, I'm hoping that the symptom noted above (the specific
>keys that stop working) might shed some light on the nature of
>the problem, in hopes of finding a more permanent fix. Anybody
>out there intimately familiar with the guts of the Model M
>keyboard?
>
.
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