9 Jun
2006
9 Jun
'06
9:19 a.m.
Kevin Handy wrote:
Tony Duell wrote:
This doesn't work for things like function keys, the magic keys
on a Sun keyboard, etc. -- unless you have a full OS installed!
I've started documenting keyboards on some of the boxes that
I have -- it's just busywork and can save your *ss when you
disassemble a keyboard to clean it.
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.