Subj : The smoke got let out
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Barry Martin
Date : Fri Aug 06 2021 07:01:00


Hi Daryl!

 DS>   Or like the sequence from "Three Men And A Baby"...where the
 DS> little girl pooped in her diaper. One man says "She did a doodle.
 DS> It's your turn to change her"...and the other guy replies "I'll
 DS> give you a thousand bucks if you'll do it". <G>

Cheap at twice the price!


 BM> It's only 54 here currently!!  Unusually cool for the beginning of
 BM> Augus.  Will be in the low 80's this afternoon; weatherman said the
 BM> average for the date is 84.
 DS>   Well, we are on the downside to winter, and meteorological fall
 DS> starts September 1.

Did warm up in the afternoon but not bad: only 81ø; by evening cooled to
the the mid-70s and opened the windows -- helped was breezy.  Next 
Monday and Tuesday won't do that as the feels-like temperature forecast 
to be in the low 100's.  ...Anyone from the desert areas is going "so?" 
-- here it's humid and the perspiration doesn't evaoporate.


 BM> You spelt it correctly, though doesn't use a hyphen (though two words).
 BM> There were two heat sinks inside, one on each IC which probably control
 BM> the data movement.
 DS>   You risk burning your hands or a item fire without those.
 
I'm thinking more the device would fail before then.


 DS> ... Doesanyoneknowhowmuchitcoststogetaspacebarrepaired??
 BM> Probably a lot more than the cost of a replacement keyboard!
 DS>   The Society Of Prevention Of Cruelty To Keyboards has a warrant
 DS> out for my arrest. <G>

Pfft! If the Society even find out what I did!  A couple/few weeks ago I
had accidentally snapped off one of the folding keyboard legs to the
keyboard on this computer (got caught on the mousepad) so swapped out 
with another keyboard I had in stock.  The keyboard with the broken leg 
has been kept and used with a Raspberry Pi project.

So back to the replacement keyboard.  Cheap feel, some of the keys 
wobble.  I've no idea where it came from but probably a freebie add-on 
when I had purchased a replenished computer some time back.  
Occasionally had issues with whatever I was working on doing weird 
things like the document window getting larger/smaller, etc.  Turned out
the left CTRL key was getting stuck, so the weirdness was due to 
CTRL_<key> commands.  Took the back off the keyboard; key 'springs' were
little greenish mushroom-looking things about 1/8th inch -- no wonder the
keys wobbled and had a bad feel!  Wiggled where the USB cord was 
soldered to the p.c. board; board to electronics recycle, USB cord to 
the little box where I keep the others.  Occasionally find the 5v power 
is handy, haven't done anything with the data leads yet.


 
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