"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote :
>
> 1984 (the year the world
> was really supposed to end)
>

    Ehh? Did I miss something?

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Bill DeWitt wrote:
> 
> "Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote :
> >
> > 1984 (the year the world
> > was really supposed to end)
> >
> 
>     Ehh? Did I miss something?

George Orwell's book  "1984". Required reading in my English Lit. class
in high school.

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"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote :
> >
> >     Ehh? Did I miss something?
>
> George Orwell's book  "1984". Required reading in my English Lit. class
> in high school.
>

    One of my favorites, but I don't remember anything about the world
ending in it...?

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The main character gave in to "the system" and might as
well have been dead, for all the free thought he had. i.e. he
had none. He seems to have been the last character to dare
do anything that "Big Brother" didn't like. He just became
a mindless cog in a vast machine. This sounds too much like
the end of the world to anyone who likes to be different.

Bill DeWitt wrote:
> 
> "Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote :
> > >
> > >     Ehh? Did I miss something?
> >
> > George Orwell's book  "1984". Required reading in my English Lit. class
> > in high school.
> >
> 
>     One of my favorites, but I don't remember anything about the world
> ending in it...?

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Ken wrote:
> 
> My keyboard is 16 years old and works as well today as when I first
> purchased it. About once every 2 years I pop all the keys off and
> throw them into the dishwaser but other than that it has seen no
> other maintenance.

Too much work. Take a dish large enough to hold the keyboard.
Fill it with Screen cleaning foam. Dip the keyboard in it for
about two hours and take it out -> clean.

Markus

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Markus Becker wrote:
> 
> Ken wrote:
> >
> > My keyboard is 16 years old and works as well today as when I first
> > purchased it. About once every 2 years I pop all the keys off and
> > throw them into the dishwaser but other than that it has seen no
> > other maintenance.
> 
> Too much work. Take a dish large enough to hold the keyboard.
> Fill it with Screen cleaning foam. Dip the keyboard in it for
> about two hours and take it out -> clean.
> 
> Markus

Your method has merits but with my method I also take the time to blow
out the dust bunnies, dead skin cells, and the stray hair of two that
accumulate underneath the keys and occasionaly cause erratic behavior.

I will add that my keyboard was manufactured in Germany and I have to
say that the German reputation for solid engineering is evident in
this product.

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I have had keyboards that didn't last two years.
Mostly because the letters wore off.

Ken wrote:
> 
> Ron Parker wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 00:40:47 +0200, Peter Popov wrote:
> > >Gee, these keyboards are getting crappier every day. Ron's caps lock
> > >key got stuck, and the darn thing isn't even three months old.
> >
> > Actually, that keyboard is more like two years old.  But believe it
> > or not, I didn't use caps lock to type that line.
> 
> My keyboard is 16 years old and works as well today as when I first
> purchased it. About once every 2 years I pop all the keys off and
> throw them into the dishwaser but other than that it has seen no
> other maintenance.
> 
> True story - date code on my keyboard is 1984 (the year the world
> was really supposed to end)
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

-- 
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"Often the appearance of reality is more important 
than the reality of the appearance."
Bill DeWitt 2000

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Markus Becker wrote:
> Too much work. Take a dish large enough to hold the keyboard.
> Fill it with Screen cleaning foam. Dip the keyboard in it for
> about two hours and take it out -> clean.
> 
> Markus

I had a keyboard with coffee spilled in it once.
Washed it in water and detergent, rinsed with distilled water and it
worked fine.

PoD.

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Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
: True story - date code on my keyboard is 1984

  What!?! You are not using a Win95-keyboard? Shame on you!

  (My keyboard is about 6 years old)

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On 2 Mar 2000 10:54:30 -0500, Nieminen Juha wrote:
>Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
>: True story - date code on my keyboard is 1984
>
>  What!?! You are not using a Win95-keyboard? Shame on you!
>
>  (My keyboard is about 6 years old)

My keyboards at home are neither win95-keyboards.  One is at
least six years old, and the other I don't know as I picked it
up for $6 at Goodwill.  Praps I'll look up the date codes next
time I think about it.

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