A talent for repair

[William Park]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 06:43:04PM -0400, 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 ;).

Ah, yes.  The age old problem of "searching for elephant using
microscope."

-- 
William

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