Are there any "good" HP 30b keyboards out there??

[rprosperi]

HP-20b and -30b, and the 34S and 31S I made are wholly unreliable for me and are useless, other than placeholders in a collection and/or to explore the occasional post with some new discovery.

I read (e.g. above) that some of these machines are totally reliable for some folks, but I suspect this is for far more patient/forgiving users than I am, and even then, it's just a somewhat more reliable bad keyboard, not suited to my taste under the best of conditions. Why anyone can tolerate this for daily use, when there are far better choices available, is beyond me...

Despite being not totally disappointing machines, from a feature perspective, and even being algebraic models, their unreliable keyboards and cramped LCD (and strange at that!) make them machines that will never be damaged by battery spills, at least in my home.