[TriLUG] keyboards

[Sean Korb via TriLUG]

I've used the dishwasher on keyboards I've given up on.  I let them dry for
weeks since I usually have a surplus of keyboards.  It's worked on both a
Logitech and an HP keyboard so far... I'm typing with one right now :)

sean

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Steve Litt via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 16:10:11 -0500
> Ric Moore via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> > On 02/28/2015 08:26 AM, Peter Neilson via TriLUG wrote:
>
> > > Does anyone have a recommendation for a keyboard with better keys?
> >
> > The keyboard of the Televideo 1603 was a dream. Alas, those days of
> > CP/M and keyboard chivalry are long gone. :( Ric
>
> Yes!
>
> My Kaypro 2x came with this light touch keyboard with even spring
> action all the way down, and when you hit bottom, you could go no
> further and knew it. This sounds problematic, but in fact it was a fast
> type and I've never had anything like it.
>
> I had several of the IBM Clickety Clacks over the years and liked them,
> but while I was writing Samba Unleashed I stopped using them because
> they required too much finger pressure for 3K word/day month long
> stretches.
>
> I now have a circa 2002 Compaq keyboard that's absolutely wonderful.
> Tactical feedback without the 50 decibel sound of the IBM
> clickety-clacks, and without the extreme finger pressure requirement.
>
> The only problem is, I eat at my keyboard (excuuuuuuuse me!), so it's
> filthy now. What do you guys do to clean up a keyboard? I was thinking
> of taking a photo of it, putting all the keys in the washing machine,
> cleaning the exterior and somehow the interior too without losing the
> springs and rubber domes, and then putting it back together again. Does
> that sound reasonable?
>
> I long for the days when you could get really good keyboards for three
> bucks apiece at garage sales and computer swap meets.
>
> SteveT
>
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