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- From: csg019@cch.coventry.ac.uk (-~=Zaphod=~-)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Keyboard templates (?)
- Message-ID: <Bxnuys.CJ1@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 15:28:01 GMT
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- Organization: Coventry University
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- * HELP PLEASE *
-
- I'm posting this on behalf of my brother. He has an amiga 500, with a problem.
- Along time ago, coffee was spilt on the keyboard, we cleared it off and
- thought nothing of it. Recently most of the left hand side of the keyboard
- is completely refusing to work. So we took it to pieces and found that under
- the keyboard is a very thin transparent sheet of plastic, with the keyboard
- circuit matrix printed on, it did not take a brain the size of a planet to
- see that some of the lines had rusted away completely. I tried to cellotape
- copper wire onto some of the connections, but it did not work.
-
- So we rang Commodore Technical Services and asked them how much a new template
- would be (quoting the part number), we expected them to say about 5 pounds.
- The woman on the phone very politely told us that it is not possible to get
- the part on its own, and we would have to but the complete keyboard unit,
- this she said would cost 105 pounds!
-
- My brother is still at school and has no way of getting this kind of money,
- so is there anyone out there who could help? Maybe someone with a broken
- a500 that wont miss that particular part?
-
- I would *really* appretiate it if someone would help me out!
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