Hello,
After experiencing what it is like to be part of a Down Sizing, at my
last Job, I found myself in a Financial Free Fall, where I quickly
discovered how to live on Half of what my family had grown accustomed.
With Money being very Tight,
I found myself needing to shop at Thrift stores etc. But, the good
news is they do often have someone's used Computer equipment, and in
the way of Keyboards, you can pick up a Keyboard for $2 to $5.
If the Store you shop doesn't have a keyboard you like, go to another
store, or go back in a couple of weeks, as the Stock changes fairly rapidly.
I brought home three Keyboards from such a Store, and my Wife took
one look at them and told me they looked like Crap because they were
Filthy. Accumulated grime, grit, and substances unknown, and should
be kept that way.
So, figuring I had nothing to lose, I took each keyboard and dunked
it into a Sink full of Hot Water. added some Dish soap and took a
Brush to those Keyboards.
Held them under water, and scrubbed and scrubbed. All through the
keys and up and down and all around.
Drained the sink, then ran it full of clean hot water, and again
dunked them under, this time to rinse them very good.
Put them in the dish rack so that any water left inside would drain
down to one corner, and left them there for about a full Week to dry
completely.
Plugged them in to a computer, and they all worked just like I had
bought them brand new. And my wife told me they were clean and had
no trace of the gunk that had been on them.
i even picked up one of those old Microsoft keyboards that cost over
$150. cleaned it up after paying about $5 for it, plugged it in and
it too works. Although, I don't like it. Way way too many keys on
this Monster. Lots of Buttons to program, and Dials to turn and Keys
to press for one thing or another.
Glad I only had $5 into it. If I would have paid $150, when these
things were new, only to find, I didn't like it, well, risking $5, is
way better than risking $150.
All of these keyboards have the USB Connection, and they all work
with no Key failures. In fact, I'm typing on one of these Thrift
store Keyboards right now. It is a Dell Keyboard of some kind, and
it has all the keys I need.
Good Hunting if you look in these kinds of stores.
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