A talent for repair

[Digimer]

On 10-07-25 06:43 PM, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
>
> We have an older Toshiba laptop that's been used by various members of the
> family and eventually ended up being used by my wife Dorothy. A year ago,
> the keyboard stopped working correctly, although the rest of the machine
> was functional and we could use a USB keyboard instead. I took the machine
> as far appart as I dared, looking for a bad connection - at one point I
> had most of it spread out on my bench - but couldn't find anything wrong.
>
> Dorothy got tired of this and bought a Mac. We put the Tosh in the basement.
>
> Last week, Dorothy left for a vacation in Walton, NS, a former mining town
> *away* out in rural Nova Scotia. On a whim, she took the Tosh with her to
> show to a local woman who is self trained in fixing computers. Marg is
> about 65 and 'started in computers' a few years ago. I was pretty
> skeptical this was going anywhere.
>
> Dorothy showed the computer to Marg and she very quickly determined that a
> couple of the function keys were pushed down and locked together. Using a
> paper clip, she freed the keys and the keyboard worked fine.
>
> Some people, like Marg, have a real talent for repairing things. And it's
> not necessarily those with an engineering degree ;).

Nice post, thank you. :)

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