[Coco] Coco keyboard trouble

[gene heskett]

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. ;)

Cheers, Gene
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