Atari ST spares

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri Mar 7 17:07:00 2003

> The keyboard damage and subsequent repair is interesting since I don't see
> how it could've happened without breaking either the case or the keys
> themselves; it's like something's punched right through the circuit board
> and physically broken it, enough to push a section of it out by 2-3mm, and I
> don't believe that someone would go to the trouble of replacing the top
> section of the keyboard AND repair the circuit board.
> The hole's been shored up with a hot glue gun and the tracks replaced with
> nice blue wires soldered in....

Had this been a TRS-80 M3 or M4, I could understand it. There's a plastic
post in the case that seems to be designed to punch a nice hole in the
keyboard PCB (a horrible SRBP thing) if you drop something heavy on the
keyboard. Please don't ask how I discovered this ;-)

-tony
Received on Fri Mar 07 2003 - 17:07:00 GMT