Doug McGarrett wrote:
Some other correspondant mentioned a dishwasher. I would think not. I've seen wooden salad bowls and the handle of a frying pan badly damaged by the I have seen stuff like that too but still my favorite and most successful way of cleaning a keyboard is the dishwasher. I cleaned a really old VT340 keyboard and it looked like new afterward. I put the parts in a basket on the top shelf and the heat was not a problem.
As far as a program, what could be better than pushing all the keys? some keys don't generate visible characters so it might be difficult to know if some keys were working correctly or not. I made a small program for Windows once to show me the chars generated by each key because I didn't have any handy list of what each key did and I wanted to use certain special keys in another program.
Damon Register