Re: ][c keyboard repair/clean

[Charles Richmond <richmond@plano.net>]

Edhel Iaur, Esq. wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 17 Jul 1997 08:14:52 +1100, Dave Morrison <deth@healey.com.au>
> wrote:
> 
> >I'm just fixing up an Apple ][c I bought a while back.
> ...
> >are
> >the keys removable so I can clean them and under them?? If so...how do I
> >go about removing them???
> 
> On the keyboards of other computers I've played with, you just pull
> the keys straight up.  Never tried it on a //c, tho.
>
Been there...done that...  I acquired an Apple ][c from a thrift store
a couple of weeks ago. The keycaps *do* indeed lift off. It is easier if
you can get a finger and thumb on either side of the keycap and wiggle
it,
all the while lifting up. Also, a flat screwdriver inserted under the
key
and pushed in to the base of the key can *carefully* pry off the keycap.
Be careful *not* to break the little cross off the top of the keyswitch 
underneath.

Unless you have the keyboard memorized well, you should write down a
layout
for it. That way you can get the keycaps *back* where they came from. (I
actually laid the keycaps out on a table in the same configuration that
they
occupied on the keyboard.)

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