Re: Apple Design Keyboard and IIgs (plus Original IIgs keyboard repair)

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

altan@aol.com wrote:
> The return key on my original IIgs keyboard only works if you press
> down with the power of a titan.  A quick search didn't find any
> obvious way to repair this.  Any suggestions?

First, try cleaning the keyswitch using a commercial contact cleaner
(Radio Shack?) combined with vigorous exercising of the switch--over
a hundred rapid pushes after a short shot of cleaner.

If cleaning doesn't do the job, replacing the switch is the next
step--unless you'd prefer to replace the whole keyboard.  ;-)

> Additionally, I connected an old Apple Design keyboard into the Iigs
> (from a Mac). While it appeared to work, I soon realized that pressing
> the CTRL key pretty much stopped whatever the IIgs was doing and
> (often) brought it back to the Applesoft prompt.  A search on this
> showed nothing interesting... actually, it showed that the Apple
> Design keyboard should work.  Strange.  Any thoughts here?

I would expect most Apple-made ADB keyboards to work fine.

-michael

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