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> Lauren Lantos <[log in to unmask]> asks:
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> >>At Cybersmith, how do they keep all the muffin crumbs and french roast
> >>drips out of their keyboards?
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> At the Internet-connected cafes around here in Berkeley, the keyboards are
> sealed into flexible vinyl keyboard covers. The covers always seem to
> look a little brown and scrungy, but seem to do the job!
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> Maggie Young
> SMASCH Project
> University Herbarium
> UC Berkeley
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Just a similar note, here in Vancouver there is a cafe
called Bennies that also provides internet access
24hr, they protect the keybords with the same sort of
transparent covers, while the computers themselves are housed
under the counter.