9810 question and offer

[Tony Duell]

(02-28-2014 05:25 AM)dramsey Wrote:  So the 9830 actually used Cherry key switches? Makes me wonder if modern Cherry MX switches would fit.

Alas they're not even close. The HP9830 keyswitch is much taller. It was a standard keyswitch about 40 years ago, I got a surplus keyboard off some word processing thing that used them. It got re-wired for another of my computers (not HP) and I had a few swtiches left over, a couple of which ended up in my HP9830.

(02-28-2014 05:25 AM)dramsey Wrote:  The 9826 I have uses Maxiswitch key switches...in fact it uses the exact same switch used on the Apple //e keyboards. I like these switches because they're readily available (see: used on Apple //e keyboards), as well as being easy to disassemble for cleaning the actual metal switch contacts inside.

That's useful to know. The 9836 will be the same, it's the same keyboard PCB.