Anyone want 10000 (presumed crappy) keyboards?

[vhaarr]

I've just located a seller locally (3 hour drive) who is trying to get rid of 10000 HP keyboards.



What I'm wondering is if anyone can help me out with identifying this keyboard? I want to do some experiments with different types of (spray)paint and was hoping these might suit my needs.

Could these keys be removed easily? Should I even hope for anything except rubberdome?

If anyone is interested he is selling them 1-by-1 for 49 NOK, which amounts to around 6.20 EUR. I'm sure that if someone orders more, you'd get a batch offer. Let me know and I'll arrange something.

But for myself, I want to find out if they are even close to usable first. I've sent him an e-mail asking for more details so hopefully he will reply soon!

[Brodie337]

Pretty much any key can be removed, though it might take a bit of brute force (but hey, theres another 9999 of them!), and having had to suffer that "keyboard" at work I can say its a bog standard rubber dome, and a mediocre one at that. If I were in your shoes, I probably wouldn't, unless you had a fair few computers that needed a basic keyboard.

[vhaarr]

I was hoping to use them for experimenting with some custom paint jobs, but if removing/attaching the keys again on this keyboard requires a lot of effort then I won't bother.

[Pixel_Outlaw]

They may join the ranks of E.T. carts for the Atari 2600 in a landfill. Really, these things I have used up at the college and I can think of no further threat to education. At best cut off the USB cords, you might use them in a project later. Maybe some internal parts can be desoldered from the PCB for future projects. Probably some LED lights in there too for free.

[kriminal]

its a rubberdome.... you can pry those of with your finger nails...

[vhaarr]

Can't you find these in the dump though?

It's illegal to take anything from the dump in Norway

[kishy]

Build something interesting with them, like a house or shed...or large model of an internal combustion engine.

[8_INCH_FLOPPY]

As far as rubber dome keyboards go, these are the better quality ones.  That may not be saying much, but to me, these new HP keyboards are heaven after typing on the 8 month old Logitec keyboards that practically have holes worn through the keys.  Damn library keyboards.

[fuzzybaffy]

I have to echo the above poster's sentiments. I'm typing on a "crappy" HP rubber dome (though not exactly the same as the ones shown in the OP), and it's actually really not that bad.

I have used other rubber domes before (Logitech, Microsoft, Apple), and I really have to say, the HP ones are the best of the lot so far. A lot of it might have to do with the low-profile keys, though. It makes for a lot less typos, and a far easier typing experience.