At 06:13 PM 8/14/01 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following: >A friend just rang to say she had poured a whole glass of water over her >keyboard at work (accidentally of course) after which it typed a load of >garbage. She left it overnight, but I suggested she turn it upside down >tomorrow and shake it, then try and dry it out gently with a hair dryer. Is >this good advice? Will it ever recover or will the contacts be ruined for >good? I think I remember someone somewhere (possibly on this List) saying >that a keyboard can actually be washed ... or was I dreaming? ;-) I have spilt a cup of coffee over a keyboard at work and at home. In both cases, I immediately unplugged the keyboard and then washed them with running water, turned upside down and banged on them and then took outside to dry in the sun. In both cases, no permanent damage was done. In fact, I'm typing on one of them now. However, I happen to use 101-key IBM keyboards that were made back in 1984. I never use the ones that I get with my new computers as I prefer the key action on the old IBM's. PS I just checked the date on the keyboard I was typing on, Copyright 1984 but manufactured 03-18-91 -- Gerry Boyd ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
