ST vs. XE in terms of BUILD QUALITY

[atarian63]

I was told by someone well experienced with repairing Atari computers that their was a problem with the XE keyboards that only exhibited/showed itself after prolonged use after about a year

 

Apparently Atari put in the wrong value keyboard resistor on the motherboard which, unless replaced would oxidize or short out the keyboard contacts, which meant you'd have to replace the plastic mylar membrane from the XE keyboard as well as the resistor (which by then would be knackered or blown)

That was pretty much it, sometime you could clean the oxidization on the strip connecting to the keyboard, we had pretty fair luck with that.