Date   : Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:51:03 +0100
From   : mike@... (Mike Tomlinson)
Subject: master keyboard

In article <d8834d20810170948j281a670dq944723cbae730a59@...>,
Alex Taylor <zeem.uk@...> writes

>As an interesting aside, I have a Beeb keyboard in bits, because it
>has square switch posts that you can actually look into and see the
>contacts. 

Oh yes - the hollow ones, as opposed to the usual cross-shaped switch
posts?  Those were very unreliable switches; the first Beeb I bought
(with my saved up pocket money!) had those switches and the keys
gradually stopped working one by one.  

Dixons wanted to send the machine away for repair but I insisted on a
replacement: the replacement had different keyswitches and was fine.

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