Our aging beige G3/233 mac developed a sticky key. Specifically the power on key. So I dove in, took out a hell of a lot of screws. It all looked simple enough. I decided to swap the rubber bit that had broken for one on another key - I consigned the F15 key to history. I put back on the 40 or more screws. I plugged it in. The computer started right away. Odd.
Each key press now results in several characters being output, at least for a lot of the keys. Bah. This means I have to shut down the G3 via ssh from my G4 and doing ‘sudo shutdown -h now’, but the keyboard immiediatley starts up the machine…it’s undead! Every time I kill it it comes back!
So now I have to yank the keyboard connection out and then issue the shutdown command over ssh just to turn the poor old thing off.
Anyone got an Apple ADB keyboard lying around?
UPDATE: I got a replacement on e-bay.