Just thought this was worth an update. Today, ten days after this
keyboard died under a big splash of water, and refused to work for
days afterward, I discovered that it has come back to life. I plugged
it into the Mac for a last check before I junked it, and to my
surprise found that it works as good as new.
I was going to throw the keyboard away after it got soaked by a
spilled glass of water and refused to work (typing on it produced
nothing when it was connected to the Mac), but Bruce above advised
hanging onto it for a while, in case it was still slowly drying out.
Well, I guess it was. When I set it aside I found one of those little
moisture-absorbing bags in a drawer, that probably came with a
packaged hard drive or something, and I tossed this bag on top of the
keyboard in case it might do any good. I don't have any idea whether
that little bag had anything to do with the revival--the keyboard is
so long and the bag so small that I really doubt it, but who knows?
Anyway, the lesson is: if your keyboard dies from getting wet, don't
give up on it. It might take ten days for it to dry out enough to come
back to life, but it certainly can!
Tom
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