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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: siouxscout on Tue, 26 July 2011, 16:25:23
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Do you guys still look in dumpsters for keyboards, if so where are you going and where are they located normally? While in the hospital not to long ago I notcied the hospital using many AT sytle keyboards and what sounded like a few mechanical ones.
Never seen a dumpster though... If I found it I would have at least taken a peek.
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I've never found a good working keyboard in a dumpster, but did once find an old Gateway Intel slot 1 system with a 333mhz Celeron, 96mb ram, and 4gb hdd. I still have it except for the hdd which died about a year after I found it. Good old fireballs... I think I've had more of those die than any other component I've ever come across.
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Noticed at a mall once the register had a Model M connected to it! look like it was used for a long time. maybe if I bring in a "new" usb rubber dome they will take it. Im sure they dont want that crummy old keyboard anyway...
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Diving into a dumpster near a hospital sounds risky :crutch:
People around here sometimes throw out old computers, haven't seen any keyboards yet.
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The only old keyboard I found was a Dell Quietkey, but didn't even look twice at it. Not mechanical, not worth the effort, at least at that time.
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The RT7D5JTW Quietkeys though are exceptionally good for rubber domes.
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...I may or may not have "borrowed" a model m from the electronics recycling station...
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If it didn't take me 30 mins to an hour to drive to one of those places, I'd go look. That's too far for me to try without knowing the result. I've tried a bunch of goodwills and whatnot but never found anything.
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I asked dealers to find out Compaq MX 11800s and IBM model Ms for me. Lucky they found some, all from computer part dumpsters imported from the US.
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There is a dumpster for electronics in the basement of my apartment block, and I go there regularly to look for stuff.
The only half-interesting keyboard that I have found there though, has been a Key Tronic foam-and-foil keyboard: NKRO but feels horrible.
However, I have snagged many other items from dumpsters. For instance, floor boards and furniture parts that I have built a cabinet and a couple of hanging shelves from. Several picture frames, an IKEA Detolf glass case (for displaying my Star Wars helmet collection) and various pieces of plastic, metal, leather and whatnot that I have recycled for arts and crafts (costuming and props). I did most of this years ago when I was unemployed
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I grabbed most of my keyboards from an outdoor corporate waste/recycling center thingy. A lot of these old mechanical keyboards were used in large companies, and due to waste disposal regulations they will almost always end up at a proper waste disposal facility rather than a dumpster. I've never found anything terribly interesting in dumpsters. Any electronics thrown out by individuals are often actually broken.
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What geekhack does to people
Day 1: Join Geekhack - make thread asking "what's the right keyboard for me"
Day 13: buy first mechanical - spazz on GH about first purchase "ZOMG MECHANICAL BEST 4EVER"
Day 20: suffer withdrawal - treatment: buy 2nd and 3rd keyboard
Day 25: Order new keycaps to mod keyboards - rage that you weren't in time for 7bit's group buy
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Day 67: realize how messed up it is that you're knee-deep in trash inside a dumpster looking for any rare or used keyboards... only to shrug it off and post on GH
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Lmao!!!!!
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What geekhack does to people
Day 1: Join Geekhack - make thread asking "what's the right keyboard for me"
Day 13: buy first mechanical - spazz on GH about first purchase "ZOMG MECHANICAL BEST 4EVER"
Day 20: suffer withdrawal - treatment: buy 2nd and 3rd keyboard
Day 25: Order new keycaps to mod keyboards - rage that you weren't in time for 7bit's group buy
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Day 67: realize how messed up it is that you're knee-deep in trash inside a dumpster looking for any rare or used keyboards... only to shrug it off and post on GH
Lmao
I skipped day's 1 and 13, we shall see what the rest of the days go. ~_~
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Day 70: After three days in the dumpster site, finally come home and eat while posting the pictures of found keyboards to geekhack.org for identification purposes.
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Day 80: Resting up after nasty bug contracted from vile filth lurking between the keys of a dumpster find.
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Day 80: Resting up after nasty bug contracted from vile filth lurking between the keys of a dumpster find.
You might be joking, but I would be very careful where you go dumpster diving for used equipment. Labs and hospitals especially, some places are not worth it.
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No babies... LOL.
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Apparently good for hot tubs too...