[Coco] Coco keyboard trouble

[gene heskett]

On Monday, January 16, 2012 01:02:43 PM Steven Hirsch did opine:

> 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!

If its a shack owned store, it has only a very limited, based on its own 
history, ability to deviate from the truly one size fits all attitude the 
shack seems to have.

Cheers, Gene
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