Bobert -

ABSOLUTELY DO NOT DISCARD YOU OLD KEYBOARD.

Put it safely in a corner someplace.

I about a month, some nefarious person will post a joke. You will spew (for the sake of decency we'll say coffee) all over your new one, and it will immediately cease working.

You will then need to pull out the old one so as not to miss out on the fun (and to reply to the jokester - no names implied), at least until the new keyboard dries out.

IF THE (coffee?) SATURATED NEW ONE does NOT dry out immediate, it should of course join the original one in the corner when you get a new new replacement. It might dry out later ya' know.

When you have a minimum of seven spare keyboards, you are entitled to call yourself an "experienced user." No one will know you're talking about computers, but they'll definitely accept the "experienced" part.

Sadly, I made a grievious error and about three days ago I took eleven of the %@$#! things to an e-recycler, and most of the keys on all of them worked (well, sort of).

I'm beginning to (sniff) miss them already.

I've also dumped at least 8 CRT monitors to the same recycler in the past few months, but none of them worked at all. (One was the old 9" yellow screen monocolor that came with my first AT computer, but it would have been dumped years ago if it hadn't hidden behind a couple of others and we forgot it was there.)

John