Re: The (Mis-)Adventures of Dave or A Long Update and a FewQuestions

["Tristan" <tristan@a2central.com.remove-k9c-this>]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:43:58 -0800, schmidtd wrote:

> On Mar 11, 8:49 pm, Dave Rawson <DCRaw...@GMail.Com> wrote:
>> On 3/11/2010 4:48 PM, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>> > Once a key is working, it will usually continue to work if it is
>> > being used with moderate frequency. This is what "wiping contacts"
>> > were designed to do. ;-)
>>
>> In this case, keys that were working stopped.  It seemed like
>> everything was failing.  At some distant point, once the spring
>> planting is finished and the debris from winter is finally trashed or I
>> have no more compelling task at hand, I'll sit and plonk the keys and
>> stare out the window at the river.
> 
> This will not help your Franklin Ace 1000, unfortunately.  Amazingly,
> their Keytronic-based keyboards have little pieces of foam that provide
> the "spring" - and they have turned to dust on you.  There is a page
> that talks about repairing same: http://www.sol20.org/keyboard.html
> 
>> Is it helpful to pop the caps and spray with contact cleaner?
> 
> Oh, my, no.  You will produce a pile of goopy wet foam residue. :-)
> 
[schnip]

Correct me if I am wrong, but the Franklin keyboard controller would 
output ASCII, wouldn't it? It was just the Apple //e class that sent 
scancodes.

If I am correct then wouldn't it be possible to inject ASCII directly? I 
don't recall whether the keyboard controller -> motherboard is serial or 
parallel.

Tristan.