[Coco] Coco keyboard trouble

[Steven Hirsch]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, gene heskett wrote:

> On Monday, January 16, 2012 11:36:31 AM Steven Hirsch did opine:
>
>> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Bill Pierce wrote:
>>> My current coco has an Eagle AT interface and the keys on the keyboard
>>> are slowly going one by one as the pads are wearing thin. As I can't
>>> find an old AT keyboard at the moment, I'm trying to get one of my old
>>> Coco 3 keyboards to work again. I opened the coco keyboard and cleaned
>>> all the contacts and reassembled. Dead keyboard. Upon further
>>> inspection, there seems to be a trace on the ribbon cable coming from
>>> the keyboard that is broken. It's the very first trace on the side
>>> that has 2 traces then a missing trace. Is there anything I can use
>>> to "paint" over the trace to make the connection? This trace is on
>>> the clear plastic ribbon cable coming from the keyboard so it would
>>> have to be something with conductivity and not melt the plastic.
>>
>> Try using the conductive pens sold in auto parts stores for repairing
>> rear-window defrosters.  I think Radio Shack also sells them.
>
> But the auto parts store version is likely 5 years fresher, Steven. ;)

>From that comment, I infer that Radio Shack has a high degree of 
consistency as a function of latitude and longitude!




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