A warning from the 20th century....

[Mrinterface]

The warning

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Notice how vague the warning is through the usage of the words 'some' and 'may'

Kudos for the person who knows which keyboard has this warning.

[ne0phyte]

I think Dell put stickers like that on some of their keyboards (or at least under the keyboard if I remember correctly)?

[Halvar]

I've seen that on Logitech and Dell keyboards.

[Muirium]

Their marketing weasel wasn't on top form that day. Some improvemts:

WARNING: Some "experts" believe that use of any keyboard — not just this one — may cause "serious" injury. Who are you going to trust? Be a man!
Consult the encyclopedic disclaimer on the back of this keyboard. By reading this notice, you accept our terms and conditions, and limit our liability. Thank you!

[ne0phyte]

Why would you add something like that?

Oh..

WARNING: Experts know that any keyboard that causes serious injury is not worth using. If you get wrist- or finger pain after short periods of typing you should consider throwing this keyboard away.

[macharius]

This is a actual photo of a HP keyboard (its in spanish but says something like yours 20th century keyboard)

[Muirium]

Well, it all just comes down to this:

WARNING: Do not sue us. Seriously. We do not want that. Have you any idea how expensive it is when every bored attorney in your market takes up nonsense damage cases against you for selling perfectly ordinary equipment to perfectly regular human beings? It sucks! For real. Even if they lose, you lose. It's like WarGames you know. But with lawyers! Who needs that! You ever see that movie? Matthew Broderick's IMSAI 8080 really rocks. I doubt you could use this keyboard with it though, not unless you've got a ton of adapters. Anyway, we're cool, right?

[7bit]

WARNING: Some experts believe that collecting of any keyboard may cause serious injury.
Consult the Keyboard Oracle if you can't get rid of this keyboard.

[HaaTa]

WARNING: Some experts believe that collecting of any keyboard may cause serious injury.

My odds of surviving are not good then...

[Muirium]

WARNING: Some experts believe peeling off this sticker may lead to seven fortnights bad luck. Consult the black magic notice on the back of this keyboard.

[dirge]

It's an old Compaq keyboard. Can tell by the horrible colour

^ not this model, they changed the colour from yellow'y to the grey around 2000 before HP bought them out. Forgot the desktop range they were pegged too, on the tip of me tounge... Their server keyboards were cherry's of course

[dirge]

[mr_a500]

That piece of shit was the first (and last!) rubber dome keyboard I ever had. For nearly 20 years, I used nothing but mechanical keyboards, then I bought a used Comcrapq Deskpro in '98 and this was the junk keyboard that came with it. It took me a while to figure out why it was so crappy - until one day I accidentally spilled a few drops of water on it and it stopped working. I opened it up and a hundred little yellow rubber domes flipped out. I've hated rubber domes ever since.

[Peter]

What, you don't have the 44-page security-instructions booklet that came with that compaq-board ??

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Seriously, this is NOT a joke !
If you use a keyboard 8 hours a day, you CAN fuck up your fingers/hands beyond repair !

EDIT :
For a rubber-dome keyboard, this Compaq-board is not that bad !

[Muirium]

Yup.

WARNING: Please don't use this keyboard. Just don't. Live the life Mother Nature gave you. Hug a tree. Sing to a squirrel. When was the last time you read poetry to a mole?

I think he got sacked after that.

[Mrinterface]

The Intergraph

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It's an Intergraph keyboard.

Also used by John Carmack whilst making Quake... http://www.geekosystem.com/1995-john-ca ... e-monitor/

[Muirium]

Yikes. The monitor he had along with it was big enough to dwarf even this beast!

Hope he had a damn good refresh rate on that thing. 21" CRTs were bad enough for flicker.

[7bit]

Intergraph: They certainly mean serious injuries to the ears, not the fingers ...

[mj45]

Products intended for sale in California, get additional May Cause Cancer and Birth Defects warning labels on just about anything sold there.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

It's an Intergraph keyboard.

From the legends, it appears to be from the same OEM though.