G80_0779

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Gilgam

06 Feb 2013, 15:05

I got this board some months ago and didn't have time to post the pictures.
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This is an old cherry board, with a strange (for nowadays' use) layout.

The connector is AT, the switches are cherry black, but worn out to this very nice feeling of "Vintage cherry blacks".
I love typing on this keyboard. The feeling is beetween black and red, no tactility of course.

It is plate mounted.
The keycaps are double shots.

With AT-> PS2 -> Bluecube -> USB connectors it works quite well, i still experience some "fixed keys" as if the key was still pressed (i sometimes have this on a blue cube connected ssk too).

Opening it is not so easy as the screws are in the plastic and quite fragile, and it seems to be more and more fragile as you unmount them.

You can see some pictures of the internals (keyboardpron :-) ).
Nothing fancy to me but i know like these.

And what about everyday use ?
Well it's not so easy as :
- The layout is strange, and i switch keyboard on a three day basis so and i can't get fully in. Moreover the / is mising on the numpad and i use it quite often, so is the altgr (how can i get these [|{#@]}^~) on an azerty keyboard ?)
- I can't select text with shift and arrows (or shift control arrows). I don't know why but it doesn't work at all.

But i love the touch feeling and the look, and typing on a keyboard older than my trainee is priceless :mrgreen: .

Hope you like the pictures.
Higher resolution on demand :-)
I'll post them on the wiki asap.
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here is the small plastic part for the cable channel.
here is the small plastic part for the cable channel.
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you can make the cable go out of the case on one side or on the other.
you can make the cable go out of the case on one side or on the other.
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HzFaq

06 Feb 2013, 15:29

Nice find and pictures, probably my favourite vintage Cherry board.

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Acanthophis

06 Feb 2013, 16:28

Dat control!

I also like Pg Up/Dn.

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tlt

06 Feb 2013, 21:06

Doesn't that model look a little like the Amiga one G80-0777? I like the look of that one.

mintberryminuscrunch

06 Feb 2013, 21:35

HzFaq wrote:Nice find and pictures, probably my favourite vintage Cherry board.
Most definitely! But way to hard to find :-(

IvanIvanovich

06 Feb 2013, 21:45

I wish I would have won it! Yes, the Amiga 1000 is almost the same, a modified version based on same pcb and casebody.

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graboy

06 Feb 2013, 23:01

Acanthophis wrote:Dat control!
That's exactly what I was thinking... we NEED a GMK group buy for these!

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Gilgam

06 Feb 2013, 23:31

400 1.75 control left stem...

That's is a über-niche market :-)
mintberryminuscrunch wrote: Most definitely! But way to hard to find :-(
KennyR (a belgium guy) sold it in october 2012 on deskthority.
lysol wrote:I wish I would have won it!
Resistance was futile, that keyboard belongs to me. I was going to go very high on that one. But i think it's in good hands, no frankenboard, I won't take the keycaps.

But if i ever die my wife will throw it to the garbage, I fear :cry:

Note for myself : stick a post-it under with "Sell it on Deskthority !!!" :mrgreen:

IvanIvanovich

07 Feb 2013, 00:16

I would have franken it, but in reverse. Kept the board and put my green on light grey set on it :evilgeek: . It has the same shape enter, and short 1.5 backspace, 2.25 right shift and all... I love that set and have nothing to put them on... well thats a lie, I have my Commodore board, but it can't work on a PC.

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Daniel Beardsmore

07 Feb 2013, 00:59

[wiki]Cherry G80-0779[/wiki]

WTFY.

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Gilgam

07 Feb 2013, 19:21

Daniel Beardsmore wrote:WTFY.
WTFII ?
:mrgreen:
seriously i couldn't get any translation, you don't want to use your keyboard ? :)

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Acanthophis

07 Feb 2013, 19:25

Also had to google it first.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=WTFY

Still don't know what Daniel is trying to say/ask. Why what?

IvanIvanovich

07 Feb 2013, 21:04

_ instead of - maybe because of the thread title?

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Acanthophis

08 Feb 2013, 00:45

Oh, so that's a FTFY?

Never spotted the _ :o

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HzFaq

08 Feb 2013, 09:35

Wiki'd That for You maybe?

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Gilgam

08 Feb 2013, 18:14

HzFaq wrote:Wiki'd That for You maybe?

And the winner is :
HzFaq

indeed thanks. :mrgreen:

I'll try to publish directly in th wiki though. Thanks Daniel.

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Daniel Beardsmore

09 Feb 2013, 21:28

I think the problem is the abomination that is link colours on this forum. One day I will kidnap webwit and beat him until he makes links in forum posts stand out. It's the [ wiki]…[ /wiki] ones that are really hard to make out.

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fruktstund

09 Feb 2013, 21:46

Daniel Beardsmore wrote:I think the problem is the abomination that is link colours on this forum. One day I will kidnap webwit and beat him until he makes links in forum posts stand out. It's the [ wiki]…[ /wiki] ones that are really hard to make out.
Download the Stylish add-on to Chrome or Firefox and do something like this:

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.post .postbody a { color: #0080ff; }
.post .postbody a[href^="http://deskthority.net/wiki"] { color: #ff0080; }
Maybe not an optimal solution though. ;)

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Daniel Beardsmore

10 Feb 2013, 02:27

That will only tell me when other people have posted invisible links. It won't tell them when I've posted an invisible link …

I've used Stylish for years — works around design flaws in other websites, such as ones that use the same colour for visited and unvisited links.

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fruktstund

10 Feb 2013, 03:16

Daniel Beardsmore wrote:That will only tell me when other people have posted invisible links. It won't tell them when I've posted an invisible link …
Yup, that's why it's "maybe not an optimal solution". Best thing would probably be to just beat webwit, I guess!

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Gilgam

10 Feb 2013, 23:15

what would you like better ?
a dotted underline for active links, and gray if visited ?

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Daniel Beardsmore

11 Feb 2013, 20:43

Not fussed so long as it stands out :)

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ماء

22 Jun 2013, 18:03

make videos gilgam typing with vintage black :lol:

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