C: Perhaps it's on newer equipment, but you run the
risk of breaking the key.
Apparently neither he nor you has dismantled every keyboard, so what's to
say there isn't a risk?
Assuming from the eBay ID you posted that it's HaaTa, he pretty nearly
*has* dismantled every keyboard (and cleaned, photographed, and documented
it, and reverse-engineered and written protocol translators for a number).
Why the asking?
Since you posted here, I assumed it was an on-topic keyboard, which someone
here might want to purchase to reunite with its original system. I'm sure
I'm not the only one here who has some machines without their keyboards, as
well as stray keyboards without their machines.
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Kevin Schoedel <schoedel at kw.igs.net> VA3TCS