11 Aug
1998
11 Aug
'98
noon
I picked up a Commodore Pet for old times sake (it was the first desktop
computer I ever got my hands on). Unfortunately a couple of keys are not
responding consistantly. I suspect that some goop got spilled on it at
some point (it was a board of education computer originally). I tried
some head cleaner which has worked for me before but not this time.
Anyone with experience with this with advice?
TIA
colan
11 Aug
11 Aug
1 p.m.
What are you doing with the head cleaner? Just spraying it in between the
keys?
What I have done with many commodore keyboards is to open them up (don't
lose the tiny screws) and clean the black rubber on each key with a q-tip
and isopropyl alcohol. I also clean the contacts on the circuit board.
Then put it back together, and it should work. I did this many times with
my original VIC-20 and with various PETs.
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998 cdrmool(a)interlog.com wrote:
I picked up a Commodore Pet for old times sake (it was
the first desktop
computer I ever got my hands on). Unfortunately a couple of keys are not
responding consistantly. I suspect that some goop got spilled on it at
some point (it was a board of education computer originally). I tried
some head cleaner which has worked for me before but not this time.
Anyone with experience with this with advice?
TIA
colan
1:04 p.m.
Thanks, I'll give that a try. I was hoping that the head cleaner would
work its way under the keys and do the job, but I'll have to bite the
bullet and go inside. By the way, what peripherals went with this thing?
colan
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Scott Walde wrote:
What are you doing with the head cleaner? Just
spraying it in between the
keys?
What I have done with many commodore keyboards is to open them up (don't
lose the tiny screws) and clean the black rubber on each key with a q-tip
and isopropyl alcohol. I also clean the contacts on the circuit board.
Then put it back together, and it should work. I did this many times with
my original VIC-20 and with various PETs.
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998 cdrmool(a)interlog.com wrote:
I picked up a Commodore Pet for old times sake (it
was the first desktop
computer I ever got my hands on). Unfortunately a couple of keys are not
responding consistantly. I suspect that some goop got spilled on it at
some point (it was a board of education computer originally). I tried
some head cleaner which has worked for me before but not this time.
Anyone with experience with this with advice?
TIA
colan
12:42 p.m.
On 11 Aug 98 at 21:04, cdrmool(a)interlog.com wrote:
Thanks, I'll give that a try. I was hoping that
the head cleaner would
work its way under the keys and do the job, but I'll have to bite the
bullet and go inside. By the way, what peripherals went with this thing?
colan
The older models had a built-in cassette, the newer models took a cassette
tape to record your programs. Keying in programs from mags. was part of
the fun. It had MSBasic and IIRC an IEEE4388 interface.
I would think that most of the VIC-20 programs would work on it, taking
into account memory limitations. I think PetBasic and Commodore Basic
were virtually the same. There were several FDDs available for it later.
the 4040, 8050,8250 ( these last 2 were dual disk-drives) and the 2031LPFD
(low profile drive) which I have ,pending the arrival of a PET to replace the
one I gave away many moons ago. Contact me by e-mail re a PET BASIC book
which, since we're virtual neighbours, I'll lend you, and I have an extra
VIC-20 Programmers Manual which I'm sure we can arrange a trade for.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
1:11 p.m.
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998 cdrmool(a)interlog.com wrote:
Thanks, I'll give that a try. I was hoping that
the head cleaner would
work its way under the keys and do the job, but I'll have to bite the
bullet and go inside. By the way, what peripherals went with this thing?
Typically a tape drive, maybe a disk drive, maybe a printer. The disk
drives and printers connected to the IEEE-488 bus. (One of the two
bigger edge connectors on the back.) The tape drive (the drives used on
the VIC-20 will work) connects to the narrow edge connector.
colan
ttyl
srw
12 Aug
12 Aug
5:33 a.m.
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