TemporalRift
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« on: June 20, 2005, 01:16:13 AM » |
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I'm an CompTIA certified hardware and software technician, their A+ Certification is the only indrustrywide reconized PC certification. But I found out today that one paticular thing I've been taught is nothing but lies.
In every A+ book I've read it says you can rinse a keyboard in gentle warm water and use it after 5 hours of drying time. I washed my keyboard in warm water, gave it eight hours of drying time, and the goddamn thing shorted so now I'm using this piss poor small formfactor keyboard with the keys all scrunched together and shit, goddamn I'm pissed.
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« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2005, 08:29:34 AM » |
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What do you expect? They're with the big corporations! They want you to buy another. :)
But ah, Why would you really need to clean it? Unless you spilled a bunch of orange juice or soda all over it. There isn't a real need to soak it with water. Just get a power duster and spray through the cracks.
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« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2005, 11:36:16 AM » |
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Two years of LAN parties tends to increase the grimeatude of components. It was a mess in there, let me tell ya
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« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2005, 02:00:16 PM » |
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Oh god, I could never do a LAN party. I'm too much of a cheater.  Maybe it was time to buy a new one anyway? |
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« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2005, 02:53:30 PM » |
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Yeah I planned to, but I don't have the cash for the one I want yet, so I'm stuck with this piece of crap until I can get the other one.
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« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2005, 03:03:28 PM » |
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which one do you want? I have a few good things to say about my Microsoft keyboard. =D
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« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2005, 03:43:43 PM » |
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All keyboards are merely poor copies of this, the original and still master of all data entry devices http://store.yahoo.com/pckeyboards/cu101bl.html |
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« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2005, 03:51:33 PM » |
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Holy shit, What a ripoff. $60 for that?
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« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2005, 04:26:24 PM » |
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You really don't get it do you. That's a reproduction of the original IBM Model M, known almost universally as the best keyboard ever made. The keys make contact using a buckling spring system that makes gumming a key damn near impossible, the casing is made of hard plastic that makes it damn near indistructible, and the keys are touch resistant to reduce accidental keypresses to an absolute minimium. These stopped being produced in 1985, and I've used keyboards of this make that are now 20 years old that are just as stable and reliable as the first day they were produced. My uncle still uses his from 1980 to this day, with a string of adapters to make it work with modern machines. There's not a single other make of keyboard that consistently remains dependable even after over two decades of use.
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« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2005, 04:52:52 PM » |
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I was always told that you are supposed to rinse the keyboard in COLD water. Not that it makes too much of a difference.
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« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2005, 09:08:41 PM » |
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You really don't get it do you. That's a reproduction of the original IBM Model M, known almost universally as the best keyboard ever made. The keys make contact using a buckling spring system that makes gumming a key damn near impossible, the casing is made of hard plastic that makes it damn near indistructible, and the keys are touch resistant to reduce accidental keypresses to an absolute minimium. These stopped being produced in 1985, and I've used keyboards of this make that are now 20 years old that are just as stable and reliable as the first day they were produced. My uncle still uses his from 1980 to this day, with a string of adapters to make it work with modern machines. There's not a single other make of keyboard that consistently remains dependable even after over two decades of use. Sounds neat. But if they stopped production, How are they still for sale? |
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« Reply #11 on: June 21, 2005, 11:21:43 AM » |
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