Re: //e key repeat problem...help!!

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On 1998-08-24 oaaland@aol.com(OAaland) said:
   >>Hello All,
   >>I have an old //e.....the one with the keyboard that has white
   >>lettered keys.  I took is all apart cleaned everything and
   >>everytime I hit a key it repeats until I press another.....and
   >>that key repeats.  Otherwise the computer seems to operate fine.
   >>Would this be a bad keyboard, or maybe a bad chip on the MB?  I
   >>just got this machine not to long ago and didn't plug it in before
   >>I disassembled it, so I don't know if I caused the problem, or if
   >it was that way already. >
   >>Can this white keyed keyboard be replaced with a later black keyed
   >>keyboard? If I remember correctly they mount a little differently.
   >>Thew spacebar on the keyboard is missing the little wire bar that
   >>keeps it from tilting from side to side and binding.
   >>Thanks,
   >>Chad A. Fernandez
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   >This problem is the normal response of a sticking key. If you had
   >the keyboard removed check to see if there is a key rubbing on the
   >case. The escape is a likely key for this as it is located where it
   >can easily contact the case but does not exhibit any problems until
   >another key is pressed and then that key will repeat.
   >All four styles of the early keyboards are interchangeable.
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4 styles exist??  What are the differences?
I didn't think it would be a stuck key becasue all the keys do it.  I guess
the way it is wired up it effects them all.  I will look as the esc key
particularly closely as you suggest.
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   >The
   >first production machines have the keyboard mounted to the base pan
   >while later ones are mounted to the underside of the top of the
   >case. The mounting holes for all the keyboards except the platinum
   >models are located the same.
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Yes, I did recall the keyboard on my newer unenhanced //e was mounted on the
bottom of the case top.  That is why I wasn't sure if a newer keyboard wiuld
fit the older case.  I am glad to here that they use the same holes.  I will
probably put a newer keyboard in the older case because of the spacebar
missing the support wire.

Thanks,


Chad A. Fernandez
Battle Creek, MI



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