Re: //e-beige keyboard compatability with platinum mobo?

["rpmxixipt" <rpmxixipt@wi.rr.com>]

What a great idea!  Why didn't *I* think of that?!
(I tell ya, some people are just born with a brain for electronics, and I'm
not one of 'em.)

Steve

"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@intergate.ca> wrote in message
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> Your problems don't seem to match up with the way the keyboard's wired.
> Especially the left shift key, it's wired in parallel to the right
> shift key right so it pretty well has to be a faulty key switch.
> All of those keys are mechanical switches so the easiest way to see
> if it's a key switch problem or something else is to remove the top.
> Then turn it upside down beside the IIe with it still plugged into
> the IIe. Every key switch is soldered onto the circuitboard at two
> spots about 3/8th inch apart. Just short together the two pins  for
> a non working key and see if something comes up on the display.
>
> Wayne