[TriLUG] keyboards

[Ken Mink via TriLUG]

I've done the same. NO DETERGENT!!! And no heat drying. Gentle wash 
cycle, then take it out and air dry for a good while. The last one I did 
was my wifes Mac chicklet keyboard.

On 3/1/15 16:06, David Burton via TriLUG wrote:
> Do you use detergent?
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Sean Korb via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>
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>>
>>
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