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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: //e Keyboard Problem
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Date: 2 Dec 88 18:58:57 GMT
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>I am having a rather irritating problem with my //e at home.  I decided
>to take it apart and clean it with cotton swabs.  I disconnected the
>joystick (in the game port), the speaker, and the keyboard cable.  When
>I hooked everything back up, everything seemed to be running fine.  Except,
>my E key did not function at all.  Built-in diagnostics found no errors

Sounds like a good example of the wisdom of the old phrase "if it ain't
broke, don't fix it."

Probably, I should knock on wood by beating my brow against a nearby tree,
but my Spring 1983 model //e has sat in my somewhat dusty den being heavily
used for 5+ years without much more than occassionally changing boards
in slots (and very little of that).  I DID have to pop the keycaps off
and take a Dust-Buster and a little TV-tuner cleaner to the keyboard
a couple of years ago when the "control" key decided to work on only
every third press or so.  The 1984 model //e in my even dustier office
at the University (is in a cabinet however) shows extensive keyboard
staining (shinier in the middle of the keys where my fingers touch, but
it has had even less (zip, zero, no) maintenance.

My position is that (after 90 days of hard use) when you computer finally
dies, it's gotten so obsolete that it's time to replace (I hope my //e's
will hang-in for Apple's "year of the CPU" (quoting John Sculley referring
to 1989) it.

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