From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MCEfT-0002It-Mh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:15:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1FFF2E0438; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:15:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEA2EE0438 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:15:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so1141214ewy.34 for ; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:15:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=heymjU0ft9TpCBuwIjA1tQdOjNm5UgCxv7pk3QJQA+U=; b=f83VKdgGkZUq8oPAGQOOQEKlaKDGd5MPxflbTrU9BfA4uezR1mMKq/6bZ0LaInrfGc MreEWxigSBgzrAQY4mgtobOeFO0mYXlNSet5UddQGMvBf3brN7BiG3my8ppyMaTlHDQL si//d+lVZSwk0rCYxA0IbTmiu+v3MGb7hE+zs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=M9temG6NL81nAJX7Pb0xvnSZA/hQi3FZotBuiRrGaZeGVPWgXorhLwTVZ6L9p82bSu HSKDsAxiPUMJqB3ewikCz/hzSfDNhDJVuz0jeMjbZ+lJMFpJEQ7IS2or3jMNkoMGzkZM W6Nag3LeGnmLBrE18z4AWitnJrs1gZMFPLVxg= Received: by 10.216.29.213 with SMTP id i63mr840394wea.90.1244128545129; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i35sm7090725gve.28.2009.06.04.08.15.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:15:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:14:12 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.2.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <20090531141405.45adc333@gentoo-01> <20090604073351.O899@shell.bway.net> <4A27DCAB.5090001@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A27DCAB.5090001@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906041714.12946.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 3212f8e0-1602-4535-939d-80248e1e790b X-Archives-Hash: 7d0a312c95e52b6dce153355b034085b On Thursday 04 June 2009 16:39:39 Dale wrote: > Ajai Khattri wrote: > > On Sun, 31 May 2009, Adrian wrote: > >> It's finally getting worn out, keys are sticking pretty bad. I would > >> like to get a new one, but the company I purchased it from (via the > >> internet) seems to not exist any more. Some google action has not > >> resulted in locating any similar keyboards. > > > > About once a year, I wash all my keyboards (no, seriously). > > Dishwasher, quick wash, cold, then leave somewhere warm to dry for a > > couple days. > > > > Afterwards, the tactile response feels like new :-) > > When I was working on computers, I used to clean them with pure alcohol > then lay them on top of the A/C condenser, you know, the hot part. It > would dry real good in a couple hours. Heat plus the large volume of > air works very well. Be careful that the air doesn't blow the keyboard > off tho. Some A/C systems can blow huge amounts of air. > > That was mostly done on IBM XT/AT and Wyse 50 terminal keyboards by the > way. I'm not sure about some of these new keyboards with the little > rubber pad thingys. > > Those old keyboards sure did click loud tho. lol IBM system M keyboard ... best keyboard ever made. They were so loud the switch construction even got given a name : buckling spring :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com