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Still using the HP 101 that I got with my first windows system back in '98...my entire coding career mostly with this keyboard. I disassemble it every few years for a good cleaning. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Personally, I feel that life is too short to spend cleaning keyboards. I make sure not to eat or drink over it, vacuum hairs and dust out about once a year, and that's it. When a keyboard gets too grotty, I replace it.
I do not require some extremely expensive keyboard, so the cost of replacement every N years is not too bad.
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A smoker, coffee, and a cat that is always shedding due to Dutch weather. And twice per year, an accident with dropping a cup; turning all ashes to cement.
Cheap cherry's would be more expensive.
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I have a DAS mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Brown switches. Nearly 10 years and still going strong like the day I bought it.
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Looks like a very clean design, and quite affordable.
10 years; that makes it quite cheap, no? 
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Sure does  I like the simple design too. I don't see my exact model anymore but it's the current Model S Professional just without the backlit media-control F-keys. I really like the Brown switches. They feel good for both typing and gaming.
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For some reason my fingers fell in love with these old OEM dell keyboards I have to go to thrift stores to find. They're about $4 a piece so i stock up on them when I shop for them, though they're very durable. Eventually, the cord goes on them, but it takes years so it's whatever.
If you want to pay too much for one, here it is + a smartcard reader for $54[^]
Real programmers use butterflies
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A MS800 Wireless...
The only time I spilled something on my keyboard was in my first days of C64... It was beetroot juice and rendered the C64 unusable for almost a week (in which I used pure alcohol and hair-dryer to make it work again)... After that I keep a distance between any liquid and my keyboard... They are with me for years...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: After that I keep a distance between any liquid and my keyboard...
I wake up, make coffee and sit behind the keyboard with a smoke. That's breakfast. After that, a new cup of coffee every two hours, with more risk when I'm programming and "zoning out".
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The keyboard for the Olivetti M240. The connector is a DE-9, but with a simple passive adapter it plugs right into PS/2 with no issues.
It's a membrane, but the strokes are noisy anyways. They don't require mush force to activate, but I guess that after 33 years the rubber domes aren't as stiff. It's built like a tank, with two stainless steel plates keeping the layers together, so it weighs 4 kg (almost 9 lbs). There's no way it's moving around my desk. The detachable cable renders it an easy conversion to weapon, if needed.
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Rosewill RK-9000V2 with clickety Cherry MX Blue switches
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I have a CoolerMaster MK750 on one machine and a Corsair K70 on the other (quite similar to your K68, IIRC).
Before that, two Logitech G11's that lasted > 10 years. Technically, the one is still ok -- I killed the membrane under the shift key on the other )': Then I went full-mechanical (Cherry Red). I prefer to have the same feel for keyboard at home and work and the two I have now are so similar in feel that it will do. I'm also looking forward to at least a decade on these!
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Davyd McColl wrote: I have a CoolerMaster MK750 on one machine and a Corsair K70 on the other (quite similar to your K68, IIRC).
Nice
Davyd McColl wrote: I'm also looking forward to at least a decade on these!
The pricing looked ridiculous, but if they last ten years they'd be cheaper than a new 10 euro keyboard every six months.
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Unicomp Ultra Classic Buckling Spring (an IBM Model M repro). Great, classic feel. Except it is still at the office, which I haven't been to since March. So for now I am stuck with a POS Dell provides for "free".
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Impressive design
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G-Skill MX Red light with blue cherry's. It's anti-spill and I changed the original caps for an engraved with transparent cover so I think these keys will have the letters disappear just a few minutes after the end of the world 
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gervacleto wrote: G-Skill MX Red light with blue cherry's.
Now THAT's a gaming keyboard!
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Absolutely! But you know, I am not a gamer, I'm a developer. I bought it for these reasons: 1) Durability. It lasts forever. 2) The Blue Cherry's are the best for my taste. 3) The red light is soft for working. (Multi color can be a little overwhelming) and 4) Because it has 6 x 3 macro programable keys which is fantastic to avoid repetitions for folding, unfolding, build... etc, functions that usually require CTRL + xx, CTRL + yy or something like that.
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Never treated it to a full cup of coffee although it has had a few slops over the years
Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro
Got to be around 20 years old now and the areas where my fingers don't touch is really filthy. I would clean it but don't want to take the risk of breaking it and it is all my dirt after all 
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MikeD 2 wrote: I would clean it but don't want to take the risk
There's tutorials on youtube, as I found out 
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I got a membrane, backlit Redragon gaming keyboard K512RGB. It is a comfortable keyboard, but I would like to better understand the backlight. It progresses across the keyboard with all the colors of the rainbow. It is pretty but doesn't appear to have a function beyond that. It didn't come with a manual. I liked it well enough that I got another for a machine in my lab.
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Col Wolf wrote: It progresses across the keyboard with all the colors of the rainbow. It is pretty but doesn't appear to have a function beyond that.
Ditto; it came with software that can make the lights progress in different patterns, colors and speed, and there's an API, but haven't seen any software that actually makes use of it.
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Sadly, I would have to decompile the software to make it work on my several Linux workstations, and I have been too lazy to do that (so far).
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