Re: GS Keyboard

["julian814" <julian814@hotmail.com>]

Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> julian814 wrote:
> > Okay, wrapped up the deal today. I tried to clean his original keyboard
> > in the dishwasher, and made a special box to dry it in so it would be
> > ready sooner. Same three keys still wouldn't work, so I guess it's a
> > good thing I bought another off of eBay. While I was at his house, I
> > cleaned up his computer a little bit  - got the disk drive heads and
> > blew some dust out of his power supply and Imagewriter //. Then I
> > tackled his color printing problem. Seems it was really simple - he
> > never bothered to check the setup on his software. I showed him how to
> > do it, and let him know that from now on, all he has to do when he runs
> > that program is make sure he has a color ribbon in the printer. Charged
> > him $30 (cheap, I know) and told him if he ever needed anything else to
> > call. He said he'd let other people know what I can do as well, so I'll
> > get a little word-of-mouth advertising.
> >
> > Thanks again everyone, for the advice and sympathy. Don't know if this
> > will lead to something better, but it was fun while it lasted.
>
> Cool, Ralph--you're an Apple doctor who makes house calls!  ;-)

Well, I don't know half as much about the Apple // series as I'd like,
but most fixes aren't that complicated anyway. Found out I undercharged
the guy, too - my brother, who works on PCs won't leave the house for
less than $35, and I charged the guy $20. I was going to charge him
less, since I was only there for about 15 minutes and really didn't do
much else than look, but he insisted on $20. Follow up I charged him
$30, but I swapped his bad keyboard for a better one, cleand the heads
on his floppy drives, and showed him how to set up Print Shop GS for
color. Also let him know if he needs software and ribbons he can call
me. 


Ralph