[TriLUG] keyboards

[Sean Korb via TriLUG]

+1.  NO DETERGENT!!! Air dry only.  For a good long time (days at least)

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Ken Mink via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> 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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