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Don't be a fool, cover your tool: How IBM's mighty XT keyboard was felled by toxic atmosphere of the '80s

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: Smoking

Rule of thumb: the best cure for keyboards doused in any kind of beverage is a bucket of (clean) water and leave it in there

It's easier to dewater and clean something up than to deal with corrosion if it's left

NB: I did run into a reuters terminal which used keyboards that literally had foil strips on blocks of polyurethane foam on the ens of the keystems. Drying that out was problematic as the foam didn't like IPA

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