How Often Do You Clean Your Keyboard ?

[Smart Red]

I started on something a little more advanced then your Underwood, Steve, but I taught myself. I never took typing or business classes in high school even though I was typing all my papers long before it was expected. I LOVED the advent of computer keyboards and being able to manipulate size, style, and placement to fit a page.

How well I remember completely retyping a 10 page essay over because I found an error or made a word change when I thought I was done. Lost a lot of sleep in my school days typing, retyping, and re-retyping yet again. Drats to that "perfection" gene. No one else I knew cared if a word or two were misspelled.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I was up to 40 words a minute in my sophomore typing class when I caught Mono late November and missed three months of school. I was so far behind in that typing class I dropped the second semester and took Civics instead.

 

[Nyboy]

Nope mis spelled word never made me lose sleep

 

[baymule]

I use a laptop, banging on the desk (my lap) is not an option. My mother made me take typing in high school. She was steering me towards office work. I had other ideas and went to work as a machine operator.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Hey Bay, I was carrying my laptop up the stairs when it fell outa my bag and went end over end down 3/4 of a flight of carpeted stairs. It still works!

 

[Smart Red]

This thread made me feel guilty.

I cleaned the keyboard, monitor, and control strip. Still need to clean the rest of the computer things.

After my scare Friday when the modem went down and I was expecting to be off line until Tuesday afternoon I figured I should give them all a good cleaning. Thanks to DS who wiggled wires differently than I had wiggled them, the modem is working and internet is up and running.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I'm sure you tried about the only thing that works for me when a modem, router, or computer goes down. Power down, usually by unplugging, count to 10 very slowly, then power back up. If that doesn't fix it, well somebody else better be able to work on it.

I quit keeping up with it when we left autoexec.com and config.sys and went to other things that are a black box to me. I wonder how many people have a clue what I'm talking about.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

You mean like slash/file/save?

 

[Smart Red]

DS had flipped off/on every circuit breaker looking for the circuit that ran my toaster. I figured, since I had used the computer in the morning, it had to be something related to his switching.

My modem indicated no power getting to it. I checked the outlet. Outlet worked just fine, modem not. I plugged it into another that I knew worked. No power to the modem.

I took the wires out of the modem and put them back in. I did the same to the wires in the computer. Nothing I could think of worked. Just no power to the modem.

Finally I called Customer Service. Two hours later I had an appointment for service next Tuesday. DS stopped by and re-wiggled the wires. Eureka! Power light one and internet getting ready to work.

I still have to call and cancel the $98 service call before next week.

 

[Nyboy]

Its magic