A500 Keyboard Issue

[Geeklite]

As it goes with 30 year old equipment. The keyboard on a newly acquired A500 seems to have some issues.
1 caps lock light does not light up at all. But the keyboard will do All Caps when pressed.
2 Function Keys f1, f2, f3, f4 don't seem to work
3 Ctrl and Amiga keys inop
4 arrow keys inop

Troubleshooting thoughts? Is it the Keyboard or CIA chips or both or something else.

Thanks

GL

[bjones]

Those older keyboards get funky under the keys..  usually have to remove the key then remove the button, take it apart and clean.  There's a number of tricks, but that keyboard is similar to the one found in trs-80 model 3/4 so do a quick google search for keyboard repair on those and there's some pretty exhaustive sites.

[Geeklite]

For what it is worth. Instead of fixing old keyboard (for now). I went with a Amiga 500 to ps2 keyboard adaptor. I was concerned that this was a  waste. But I was wrong.This thing actually worked.All function keys back ctrl-lamiga-r-amiga work they way they are supposed to. For around 50 bucks no complaints.

Thought I would share