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  • Dead rows on Mac keyboard

    From bob prohaska@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 1 18:37:42 2020
    An old G3 iMac will boot and run, but the keyboard seems
    to have dead top (numeral) and bottom (period, comma) rows.
    Spacebar works. It's model M2452. The mouse seems ok plugged
    into the keyboard's hub. The keys feel normal mechanically.

    With nothing to lose I'm tempted to try taking it apart.
    Can anybody offer hints where to looks for trouble of this
    sort?

    Thanks for reading,

    bob prohaska

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to bp@www.zefox.net on Sat Feb 1 14:16:16 2020
    In article <r14ghm$pm0$1@news.albasani.net>, bob prohaska
    <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote:

    An old G3 iMac will boot and run, but the keyboard seems
    to have dead top (numeral) and bottom (period, comma) rows.
    Spacebar works. It's model M2452. The mouse seems ok plugged
    into the keyboard's hub. The keys feel normal mechanically.

    keyboards are cheap. replace it. the keyboards with the early imacs
    weren't that great anyway.

    you probably have a few usb keyboards already, so no need to buy
    anything.

    With nothing to lose I'm tempted to try taking it apart.
    Can anybody offer hints where to looks for trouble of this
    sort?

    at or near the non-functional top and bottom rows.

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  • From bob prohaska@21:1/5 to nospam on Sun Feb 2 19:04:42 2020
    nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

    keyboards are cheap. replace it. the keyboards with the early imacs
    weren't that great anyway.

    I happen to like the feel of this one....

    you probably have a few usb keyboards already, so no need to buy
    anything.

    No spares, unfortunately.

    With nothing to lose I'm tempted to try taking it apart.
    Can anybody offer hints where to looks for trouble of this
    sort?

    at or near the non-functional top and bottom rows.

    Much more informative:
    https://siber-sonic.com/mac/keyboards/M2452.html

    but not very encouraging. As usual, Apple makes it hard as
    possible to fix thing.......

    bob prohaska

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to bp@www.zefox.net on Sun Feb 2 15:10:39 2020
    In article <r176ga$71t$1@news.albasani.net>, bob prohaska
    <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote:

    With nothing to lose I'm tempted to try taking it apart.
    Can anybody offer hints where to looks for trouble of this
    sort?

    at or near the non-functional top and bottom rows.

    Much more informative:
    https://siber-sonic.com/mac/keyboards/M2452.html

    but not very encouraging. As usual, Apple makes it hard as
    possible to fix thing.......

    apple did not make it as hard as possible to fix.

    keyboards are never easy to fix no matter who makes them.

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