3 Apr
2011
3 Apr
'11
12:18 p.m.
Re: the Keyboard.
All three of my Lisa Keyboards had degraded foam pads so much so that
between the three of them only one key worked! However, the computer still
registered a keyboard as being present.
Alll three keyboards are working now. I got my replacement pads off Erik
Klein, who is a member of this forum. He might have some more left.
Given the battery damage you describe, if you have got the stage where the
Profile is seeking then things are going well! (-:
Jammed/gummed up floppy disks are also a common, although it's not the only
fault these drives can have as evidenced by my long diagnostic conversation
with Tony on this mailing list.
Terry
At the end of the internal self-test (everything
passes!)
it complains that the keyboard is not plugged in. I
get this result with both keyboards. Is that the
symptom of dead foam disks? Somehow I thought it would
still know a keyboard was out there, so perhaps this is
something else altogether. There was so much corrosion
on the edge connector at the rear of the CRT cage that it
could simply be bad contacts at that point. Will have to
start checking continuity.