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In contrast to the Cherry G84 keyboard I opened up previously, here rather than discrete switches you have a hole through the plastic leading to a silicone dome. Apparently they built them better back then than they do now, comparing it to my more recently made HP rubber dome keyboard. I was also surprised to find that the key feel wasn't as bad as I was expecting. But I was pleasantly surprised when I ran the UL number (e164844) to find that it was made by Chicony, a now defunct keyboard company with a rather varied past. I expected this keyboard to be a POS from some random Chinese/Taiwanese company that no one's ever heard of.

It's a rubber dome (or more accurately, membrane) keyboard like 99% of all modern keyboards. The computer has long since succumbed to the power supply issues that plagued early eMachines computers, but the keyboard remains. The computer it came with had an Athlon 64 and was considered fairly powerful for its time, so that gives it a timeframe of about 2003-2005. This isn't as old as my other keyboards, but it has been around quite a while. Tonight I took apart an old keyboard I found in a closet.