iMac keyboard broken? Cleaning it? Any USB keyboard compatible with OS 9?
I think my girlfriend's iMac (bondi blue, + upgrades) keyboard is messed-up.
It's pretty dirty, and when she was using it last night she said it suddenly started doing "strange" things when she types, like new windows opening-up & stuff like that. Some letters do nothing. Mouse works ok though.
Overall it sounds to me like one of the command keys is stuck "on".
Do those pop-off the keyboard easily? How? Any recommendations on how to clean inside there? Can the keyboard be easily disassembled? Should I? I believe I've read elsewhere that a vacuum may be a bad thing because air flow across a circuit board can create static charge?
If the keyboard needs replacing, apparently we can use any ole' Mac-compatible USB keyboard, not just an iMac-specific one? But then when I look at, say, Apple's keyboard, it says it needs OS 10.2, and she's stuck with OS 9. Will the keyboard still work ok, or just some keys not function right?
It's pretty dirty, and when she was using it last night she said it suddenly started doing "strange" things when she types, like new windows opening-up & stuff like that. Some letters do nothing. Mouse works ok though.
Overall it sounds to me like one of the command keys is stuck "on".
Do those pop-off the keyboard easily? How? Any recommendations on how to clean inside there? Can the keyboard be easily disassembled? Should I? I believe I've read elsewhere that a vacuum may be a bad thing because air flow across a circuit board can create static charge?
If the keyboard needs replacing, apparently we can use any ole' Mac-compatible USB keyboard, not just an iMac-specific one? But then when I look at, say, Apple's keyboard, it says it needs OS 10.2, and she's stuck with OS 9. Will the keyboard still work ok, or just some keys not function right?
Bondi blue iMac (with upgrades), Mac OS 9.2.x
