Tony Duell wrote:
I rmemeber once, severals years back, trying to find a
picture of the
keyboard of the HP9815 [1]. I'd foolishly unscrewed the PCB withut noting
where all the keycaps went, not realising they fell out if you did this.
So I needed to know where to put them back. Finding a picture of
sufficient resoultion to read the legends on the keys was non-trivial
(this was before there were sites with scanned manuals for said machine).
What I usually do in the case of loose keycaps (if the keyboard can be
assembled w/o the keytops enough to be functional), is to plug it in to a
system either at a command prompt or in a text editor, then push the
buttons to see what happens. Pop in the keycaps as their function is found.