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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: ether22 on Sat, 23 May 2015, 11:05:29

Title: question about old keyboard
Post by: ether22 on Sat, 23 May 2015, 11:05:29

hi.
i have an old hp pavilion keyboard, purchased maybe around 10 years ago (came as part of a home pc set). looks like this (but with printed keycaps) (yes iso layout) (with correctly installed keycaps) (picture found on the internet)
http://i.imgur.com/Bg2OGgI.jpg
can you tell me what keyboard this is and whether it is a so called 'mechanical keyboard'?

Title: Re: question about old keyboard
Post by: SpAmRaY on Sat, 23 May 2015, 11:10:53

Typically OEM systems come with rubber dome keyboards.

Title: Re: question about old keyboard
Post by: E TwentyNine on Sat, 23 May 2015, 11:16:33

Not seeing a wire, but if there is one that's an HP KB-0228 (whatever the ISO model number is).  If it's not it's the wireless version of that.

https://www.google.com/search?q=KB-0228+HP&tbm=isch

It's rubber dome, but it may be a metal backplate which is the better kind of rubber dome, but still rubber dome.

Not mechanical.

Title: Re: question about old keyboard
Post by: absyrd on Sat, 23 May 2015, 11:21:56

I see TONS of these in thrift stores and e-cycler. I get no special feels from it. Sorry.

Title: Re: question about old keyboard
Post by: chyros on Sat, 23 May 2015, 11:40:10

As a general rule, almost every keyboard with media keys and sleep keys and all that stuff is a cheap rubber dome keyboard, NOT a mechanical one.