dougm@lakesys.lakesys.com (Doug McIntyre) (01/15/90)
Had an interesting thing the got fried on my keyboard.. Maybe someone could comment on simular experiences.. etc.. Keyboard started to be very flakey, and wouldn't send keypresses to the computer. Mouse was perfect though... When I switched cables around from ``normal'' (ie. switch the cable going to the computer from the left socket to the right, and the mouse from the right to the left) it works ok.. As far as I could trace, the bus goes right into the micro-controller, so that means the micro-controller must of fried off one of its ports.. Oh well.. I just have cables criss-crossing across my desk now.. I wonder if I can copy the PROM of the micro-controller into an EPROM version of the micro-controller.. I don't remember seeing a way from the data-sheets on it.. Fairly standard micro-controller.. Forget the # now.. -- UUCP: uunet!marque!lakesys!dougm Compuserve: 70611,2215 INET: dougm@lakesys.lakesys.COM GEnie: D.MCINTYRE1 ALPE: DougMac
bh@pro-lep.cts.com (Brian Hicks) (01/16/90)
In-Reply-To: message from dougm@lakesys.lakesys.com
I just had *exactly* the same thing happen to my GS keyboard! The ADB port is
fried on the left side of the keyboard. The only thing I can think of causing
this, is to have the keyboard in your lap thus bending the cable (which
torques the port pins). After about 2 years of this, a pin finally snapped.
The only solution to this problem, that I've been able to find anyway, is to
hard-wire the cable into the keyboard. I didn't though. I got a new Apple
extended keyboard ;) Hope this helps!
Brian
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INET: bh@pro-lep.cts.comaj0@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Mulholland) (01/16/90)
In article <9206.net.apple@pro-lep> bh@pro-lep.cts.com (Brian Hicks) writes:
)In-Reply-To: message from dougm@lakesys.lakesys.com
)
) I just had *exactly* the same thing happen to my GS keyboard! The ADB port is
)fried on the left side of the keyboard. The only thing I can think of causing
)this, is to have the keyboard in your lap thus bending the cable (which
)torques the port pins). After about 2 years of this, a pin finally snapped.
)The only solution to this problem, that I've been able to find anyway, is to
)hard-wire the cable into the keyboard. I didn't though. I got a new Apple
)extended keyboard ;) Hope this helps!
There is another solution to the problem, get one of those cable
spliters. This solution works well until the other keyboard connector
breaks. The nice thing about do this is it's easy. Plug the keyboard
cable into the working side of the keyboard and the other end into the
spliter. Hook the mouse up to the other side of the spliter. If you
are like me, there's another atvantage, when the keyboard moves, the
mouse doesn't! I got my spliter from: ELPE Enterprises (619) 571-0757.
Cost only $15 and works great for me.
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