Re: Help with Fried IIE Keyboard!

[mccoy@hopi.dtcc.edu (Dan McCoy)]

Jeff W. Schroeder (teke@livy.ccs.itd.umich.edu) wrote:
: Hi all!

: Got myself a real nice problem this time...   I was cleaning my
: monitor last night and apparently picked up a wonderful static charge.
: Touched the keyboard on my enhanced IIe and <<<ZAP>>>.
: Needless to say only half the keys work now when you press them.  I
: am not sure if I blew the Keyboard ROM or if I zapped the Keyboard
: encoder chip.    Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I
: could find these parts or if I am barking up the wrong tree???  I really
: can't afford a motherboard replacement, so I would like to replace the
: toasted chips myself.  Please post any suggestions as to were I can
: get these items.  I suspect that the problem lies in the keyboard
: encoder...  Somewhere, once I read that it is the only component in
: the IIe that is highly succeptable to static discharges.

Look up Altech Electronics in CA.  Check in InCider and the old A+ 
magazines for the INFO. They have them I don't have the number handy. If 
you email me in private, I'll find them for you, but I need a reminder.  
Check those magazines first then email me if you can't find them!

-- 
Danny McCoy (mccoy@hopi.dtcc.edu)
Delaware Technical and Community College
ITV studio technician
The Microchip of computer technology