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i had to figure out that you must have a wireless keyboard. i've never had one of those so its all moot to me. glad you got it sorted out quickly tho. j.

"Polly Esther" wrote ... Well. That's a new one. SomeWhat off topic. This morning I was happily typing out an answer to a buddy quilter here and realized that no words were forming on the screen. ? ?? ??? Decided, after a long while of sitting here looking dumb and helpless that I could solve the problem myself. Yeah. Right. Wondered if the batteries in my keyboard were dead, dead, Dead. I put the keyboard bottom-up on the ironing board, gingerly removed the flappy thing that covers the batteries; drew myself a very careful schematic of which way the batteries should aim and found new batteries. Replaced them. No luck. Keyboard dead. Wiggled and rattled the cute little thingie that receives (?) from the keyboard. Nothing. DH - proficient in: patience, electronics and Logic suggested I take the non-communicating parts over to my nice lighted magnifying light. AHA ! both the keyboard and that tiny thing that receives (?) from the keyboard have wee red buttons on their base. We mashed them and viola / voila ! All is well. Did you know that you have red buttons? This could happen to you. Remember. Polly

Oh my yes, Jeanne. I have a wireless keyboard. It's just soooo convenient to pop the thing in the dishwasher. Please. just kidding. This keyboard was 'free' with my computer, has about 75 keys that I don't know what they're for. . . and though I frequently clean it, I'd never noticed the little red 'connect' buttons on the base. Connect? as compared to what? Don't connect? Beats me why someone would want a keyboard that was disconnected. Not even going to think about it. Polly

My keyboard connect button is green and the mouse one is red. Very pretty.

Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk

Polly Esther wrote:

Hehehehe...

My wireless keyboard stopped working. Too much gunk accumulated. I really should stop eating soup and marmalade sandwiches at the pooter...

Anyway, Himself dismembered the thing and I scrubbed several components clean in the sink. It's just like new again! :)

Many years ago a kid poured Coke into the keyboard of one of the school pooters in the pooter room next to my room. Our tec fella ran it under a tap and propped it on a radiator to dry. As he said, it couldn't be worse than the Coke for it, and it gave the thing two chances: survive in working order or not. It survived.

Mine is a Logitec. Has loads of buttons I never touch. No idea what they are for. Probably mere decoration. No little red buttons on the bottom, though.

The keypad is nice and robust, and has put up with a couple or three years of me hammering it to death.