From: Bill Morrow - http://thinkpads.com (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Mon Oct 05 1998 - 04:03:38 EDT
Paul..
when the time comes for a 770 kbd to be replaced, it will still be under
warranty.. i suspect.. :-)
Paul Rubin wrote:
>
> I gunked up my 755cx keyboard after a year or two of fairly heavy use.
> The key action was sticky and sluggish. I got a replacement keyboard
> from IBM Direct for around $80 and put it on with some help from Bill
> Morrow (thanks!). It was a tremendous improvement and well worth it.
> The keyboard is something that you use up and have to replace every
> so often, like the trackpoint cap. Later I found that Insight Direct
> had the same keyboard for around $60. So I was really pained to hear
> that a new keyboard for a 380 costs $180 or something like that.
> I wonder if my 770 keyboard will cost that much to replace when it's time.
-- Happy Trails...** Bill Morrow ** :-) WEB page http://thinkpads.com Thinkpad User Community: http://thinkpads.com/enter.html bill_at_thinkpads.com 770ED-5AU(8.1gig, 298meg), 760ED(3.0gig, 104meg), 701C (five of them)(6.3gig, 40meg), 755CE(no gig, 40meg), 750C(no gig, 4meg), IBM WorkPad(1meg)
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