Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong

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From	richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
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Subject	Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong
Date	Sat, 25 Mar 2017 09:43:45 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <ejmqf6F4j7hU1@mid.individual.net>,
Ian McCall  <ian@eruvia.org> wrote:

>Odd one. I have a model A1234 Mac wired keyboard (the one with the 
>number pad). All of it works except a single key - 'x'. Instead of 
>typing an 'x', it types a '`' (backtick) character instead.
>
>I find this really odd - can understand several keys being wrong as 
>maybe being a membrane or controller issue. But just one? It's 
>consistent across multiple machines as well.

It could be a broken circuit board track in the keyboard itself.
What does it do when the shift key is pressed?

-- Richard

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Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2017-03-25 09:09 +0000
  Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2017-03-25 09:43 +0000
    Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2017-03-25 10:45 +0000
    Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2017-03-25 22:11 +0100
      Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2017-03-25 21:58 +0000
        Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2017-03-27 01:13 +0200
        Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2017-03-27 16:13 +0100
  Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-03-25 09:55 +0000
    Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2017-03-25 10:57 +0000
  Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong pfjames@google.com (PeteFJ) - 2017-03-26 08:29 +0100
    Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2017-03-26 09:38 +0100
      Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong black.hole@jonbradbury.com (Jon B) - 2017-03-26 10:41 +0100
  Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2017-03-27 10:49 +0100
    Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2017-03-27 12:54 +0100
      Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2017-03-27 16:12 +0100

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