Re: Discoloration of Apple II keyboards

["sfahey" <sfahey@a2central.com.remove-e49-this>]

  To: trulore
On 3/3/08 9:10 AM, in article 47CC14CD.13872.usenet_csa2@a2central.com,
"trulore" <trulore@a2central.com> wrote:

> Why is the spacebar on old Apple IIe computers always discolored?  Look at any
> old Apple IIe computer on eBay, and the spacebar is this gross discolored
> shade of grey-yellow, even though the rest of the keys on keyboard are
> original grey.  

More surface area exposed, also makes it more noticeable?

> The later "Platinum" IIe computers (with built-in numeric keypads) do not seem
> to suffer from spacebar discoloration either.

I'm afaid they do, if the ones in my collection are any indicator.
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