You survived the bashing of Fury 3 and Hellbender; but your gladwrap did not. We had to replace it constantly.
The next few years were gentler as the computer you were attached to was used more for homework, and games moved more to mouse input.
On the 3 of June, you were abandoned as I required a computer that travelled with me. At the time I was unable to find a converter to change your dim input down to a ps/2 connection. You still served well on internet gateway you were connected to.
In January of 2005, I breathed new light into you with the purchase of a new machine and finally finding the converted I required. You were smooth from start to finish of Half Life 2. You were a pleasure to code on during Advanced .NET and easy on the hands when it came to large documents.
Towards the end, your shift and control keys would stick, causing much frustration when I couldn’t type the words I was after. Your 0/Ins key would also get difficult to push. This never bothered me though, because I could get you going again just by tapping each crtl, alt and shift key. I could never bring harm to something so faithful.
I cleaned every key on you twice in your life, lovingly wiping each corner with a tissue and tee tree oil. I would often pull the hairs and dust out of you with a screw driver.
Last weekend, I thought it was worth cleaning you out from the inside. So I removed you from my desk and blew you out with my air compressor. When putting you back together, I was shocked to find you did not work.
I found out that there was one tab that did not going back under circuit board. So I had to work out how to under the screws that were non-standard. Finally got them out and had to cut slits in them to get them installed again.
Then I noticed the wires were loose on the connection to the circuit board. So I placed some strands of cat5 cable in there to hold the clips in place. When trying to cut the cord, I got your wire. I tried to solder the wire back to the clip, but crushed the other end. I tried to solder the wire straight to the pins on the board, but the solder wouldn’t stick. I removed the pins from the board; unfortunately I scored the board doing it. The wires then broke and frayed as I was putting the wires on the board. When I got one in place, I tried to solder it there but again, the solder would not stick where I wanted it. To my disgust, it went over 3 tracks that I didn’t want it to go over.
I am now looking for a replacement. Same brand would be great.
Part Number g83-6104LPMUS/ 00
http://www.nationalbarcode.com/Cherry/Cherry%20G83-6104.htm
Seems to have them, but the enter key has changed shape.
I’ll go looking for a keyboard this weekend, but I would appreciate any input from the community if they could help me find a replacement. Key placement is important.
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1. Xavier | September 8th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
My reward for mastering Colemak is http://www.daskeyboard.com/
Maybe for Christmas
