ACT Apricot keyboards, or infra-red japes

[Adrian Graham]

Hi folks,

Recently I've picked up the bits of the infra-red Apricot keyboard that 
Jules investigated at my place and left in bits all over one of my 
sofas :)

It's a membrane activated by springs and quite a lot of the keys don't 
register with the host machine which in wired keyboards points to a 
dodgy membrane.....however, in this case there might also be some issue 
with the infra-red emitters, so short of dragging a digital video 
camera down to my southern home is there a way of watching the 
infra-red emitters to see if they're working OK?

I know CCD based video cameras can see infra-red......

Apologies in advance if this message appears garbled, I'm using an 
awfully off-topic Mac G4 with OSX 10.2 and I'm not used to its settings 
yet :) The machine was going to be dumped yesterday because 'it doesn't 
work'..........oh yes it does :D

Cheers,

a