[Coco] Help COCO-1 Keyboard

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 08 April 2007, John T Chasteen wrote:
>I got a Coco (Gray Box) with chicklet keys. Unfortunately some of the
>keys must be dirty. What is the best way to clean the electrical
>contacts?
>
Unforch, the contact buttons are conductive rubber and when the carbon 
particles are worn off, its a bit difficult to restore them.  I have used 
a conductive paint a couple of times but its lifetime in service was 
pretty short.

>I also have a replacement keyboard but the connector is a flat ribbon on
>the keyboard and the connector on the motherboard is a male connector.
>Any
>suggestions how I can solve this connection problem?

Replace the motherboards connector?  But I've no idea where to obtain one 
other than cannibalizing another later coco.

>We had a great time at the Last annual COCO Fest. The seminars were
>great.
>There was a lot of new products available for sale. I"I'll soon have the
>SUPER Card with all the goodies for Nitros OS9 and a large IDE hard
> drive and
>interface box so I can connect a flat panel monitor. The coco3's are
>going to get some serious use.
>
>Another good purchase was Tandy DeskMate 3 Documentation (26-3262) which
>is for OS9 Level 2. Unfortunately I can't find the 5.25 floppy program
>disks. Can someone help with a copy?
>
>I want to do more than play games with all the new ROM packs I have .
>
>How Can I get the back issues of  "CoCoNutz! E-Zine " ?
>
>John Chasteen
>
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