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We all do it, even though we know we probably shouldn't. Whether it's merely snacking to help pass the time or voraciously devouring lunch while trying to restore the chief executive's files we inadvertently deleted, we all eat at our keyboard.
It got me thinking and I decided to stop eating potato chips (crisps) over the keyboard. It's great, the keys are starting work again.
Cheers,
-Automan
(Waves fistful of money around commercial exchange forum again)
My keyboard at work was so dirty that I took it to our "kitchen" area and washed the thing down late on a Friday night. I used soap and a sponge and the thing was like new when I finished. I dried it off with some paper towels. I figured it would air dry the rest of the way over the weekend and I'd start out with a nice clean keyboard on Monday.
Come Monday about half the keys worked. So I took the board and swapped it out with this someone that was out sick that day. A couple of days later I see the guy talking to one of our IT folks with a new keyboard under his arm. They were talking about how crappy the IBM keyboards were...
I hope buddy's new keyboard wasn't better than the one you swiped from him!
"RUN THE DISHWASHER ON THE COLD CYCLE!"
I use the dishwasher trick myself, and mention it to a friend, but I forgot to tell him, to keep the heat off.
He was not to impressed when he received a half melted keyboard. But it was sparkling clean :)
Somehow, I don't think the "don't eat at your keyboard" proscription applies any more, now that keyboards have sunk to commodity status. (I do remember paying almost $250 for my first-ever Cherry Switch keyboard, though, in 1975 -- I never ate over that one!)
Jim
