Re: re Northgate keyboards

[Alison Tartt akt@xxxxxxxx]

My OmniKey 102 has developed a sticking Enter key. I've tried removing the
keyboard cover and using a pressurized duster to clean out the fuzzballs.
But that didn't help. Is this the kind of problem that is considered
"unfixable" or "not worth fixing"? For a while, I used the Enter key next
to the keypad, but for me that was too inconvenient. Fortunately, I had a
spare 102 squirreled away and have now switched, but I hate to just pitch
the malfunctioning one. If anyone is interested in it (and if you think you
can fix it or get it fixed), let me know. I'd like to find it a good home.

Alison Tartt

>Since my trusty, well broken-in *original* Omni-102 (circa the late '80s)
>has some worsening problems that are probably unfixable or not worth
>fixing, and I'll probably have to start using the spare I salted away a
>few years ago, I guess it's time to bite the bullet and get an Avant. As
>long as we are still using keyboards, I wouldn't want to use anything
>else.
>
>Just for the record, there was an outfit someone on Compuserve turned me
>on to, Lueck Data Systems (maybe that was the one being referred to here
>?), that for a while had some leftover stock on the Omni's, parts, and
>repair options for those insisting on it. They have not answered email
>I've sent them recently, leading me to wonder if they might be out of
>business. Their website hasn't been updated for a couple years.
>
>Jordan