Re: your old lexmark keyboard

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 > Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:06:25 -0800 (PST)
 >
 > On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, robert wrote:
 >  >  > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 >  >  > Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:21:42 -0800 (PST)
 >  >  >
 >  >  > I'm looking at the wires that come out of keyboard and the plastic 
 >  >  > surrounding the wires is flaking off. should I put duct tape around these?
 >  >  >  
 >  >  > Is it dangerous to have wiring exposed?
 >  > 
 >  > Only if the wires get short-circuited preventing the signals getting to
 >  > the computer.
 > 
 > i do notice sometimes when I'm typing it gets stuck for a second as I'm 
 > typing something, so maybe this is the problem

You'd only notice it if it completely dropped keystrokes until you wiggled
the wire around.

 >  > So, the printer is working fine, then?
 > 
 > no,it's not, but I took too much time already trying to get everything 
 > working again.

Oh, OK.  I'll work on it, maybe this weekend.  We probably should get it
working before we finish the taxes.