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AAAAAUGH! Dead IIgs keyboard!



AAAAAAAAUGH!!!

We had a bad rainstorm the other night.  My desk got soaked (the window
was open).  My IIgs keyboard...a REAL IIgs keyboard...got rained on.

A couple of hours after the rainstorm, everything was just fine.

The following night, disaster struck.  Suddenly the space bar, backslash,
left arrow, right arrow, down arrow, keypad 0, keypad ., keypad ENTER,
keypad 3, keypad 2, and keypad 1 keys no longer function.

Shorting the solder pads under the keys in question does nothing, so it
isn't the key switches.  Those are the only keys that do not work.

My first guess is that there is a bad jumper on the board someplace, but
the jumpers are all on the switch side, and inaccessible without removing
*all* of the switches.  Does anyone have any ideas?  A map of the PC board
so that I can duplicate the jumpers on the bottom side?  Any other theories?

I really don't want to have to buy a new keyboard, particularly since that
would probably mean getting a keyboard with the CONTROL key in the wrong
place...

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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