Cherry G80-1000HAD

davkol · 29 Mar 2014, 18:01

Some pictures and a video I made last night...

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rindorbrot · 29 Mar 2014, 21:49

That board seems to be in a pretty good shape. What is the DIP Switch for? AT/XT?

davkol · 29 Mar 2014, 21:53

IDK, never noticed it before to be honest. The keyboard is about to leave me, thus I can't try.

BlueBär · 30 Mar 2014, 00:28

Yummy vintage blacks... Yes the switch is for AT/XT.

davkol · 30 Mar 2014, 10:01

Actually, there are two of them. That's what confused me.

Zeppelin · 30 Mar 2014, 23:06

BlueBär wrote:Yummy vintage blacks... Yes the switch is for AT/XT.

I wouldn't say these are vintage blacks. Cherry sign is smaller than it should be. I have the very same keyboard, cherry mx black with diods (not vintage switches)

BlueBär · 30 Mar 2014, 23:34

Zeppelin wrote:I wouldn't say these are vintage blacks. Cherry sign is smaller than it should be. I have the very same keyboard, cherry mx black with diods (not vintage switches)

The Cherry logo is bigger than on a new switch, compare it to the size of the slider. Also the cherries sit lower than on the new logo. I have the same keyboard as well... Wait I actually have two of them

davkol · 30 Mar 2014, 23:37

The logo doesn't mean that much, unless you define "vintage" as "with big logo". There have been keyboards with switches that had both kinds of logos, but consistent feel. Speaking of feel, those were ridiculously smooth—like filled with some liquid—smoother than any blacks or reds I've tried on any modern keyboard.

I'll be shipping the board to IKSLM next week, maybe he'll chime in later.

BlueBär · 30 Mar 2014, 23:41

davkol wrote:The logo doesn't mean that much, unless you define "vintage" as "with big logo". There have been keyboards with switches that had both kinds of logos, but consistent feel. Speaking of feel, those were ridiculously smooth—like filled with some liquid—smoother than any blacks or reds I've tried on any modern keyboard.

The ones with the big logo are usually the super smooth ones while sometimes switches with the small logo are as smooth as well. The big logo is just a good indicator.
And yes, what you felt were vintage blacks.

sixty · 31 Mar 2014, 23:25

This was made in 1988, it's as vintage as it gets

Ascaii · 31 Mar 2014, 23:39

SIXTY!

webwit · 01 Apr 2014, 00:11

We must delurk him more by posting more rare vintage Cherry objects.

kbdfr · 01 Apr 2014, 00:54

webwit wrote:We must delurk him more by posting more rare vintage Cherry objects.

woody · 01 Apr 2014, 09:26

Exorciser? Was this at some University?

tinnie · 01 Apr 2014, 09:35

kbdfr wrote:
webwit wrote:We must delurk him more by posting more rare vintage Cherry objects.

blaupunkt btx keyboard?

kbdfr · 01 Apr 2014, 09:58

webwit wrote:We must delurk him more by posting more rare vintage Cherry objects.

kbdfr · 01 Apr 2014, 10:04

tinnie wrote:
kbdfr wrote:
webwit wrote:We must delurk him more by posting more rare vintage Cherry objects.

blaupunkt btx keyboard?

ITT Standard Elektrik Lorenz

rindorbrot · 01 Apr 2014, 10:43

But the blaupunkt has the same "fct" button.

sixty · 01 Apr 2014, 11:09

You guys are mean. Also yeah, the Blaupunkt ones are very similar in legends. I have a one of the smaller ones with the coffee/cream colored keycaps.

kbdfr · 01 Apr 2014, 11:32

sixty wrote:You guys are mean […]

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tinnie · 01 Apr 2014, 12:01

My turn!

Ascaii · 01 Apr 2014, 16:51

Here is another one for you, Sixty

nourathar · 01 Apr 2014, 17:00

I'm not that much into Cherry-boards but these are weird and wonderful !

kbdfr · 01 Apr 2014, 19:36

Another gorgeous one, with a lot of weird (doubleshot) caps:

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sixty · 01 Apr 2014, 19:41

Looks like you have singlehandedly found every obscure French Cherry keyboard in existence.
What's the model number on that last one? I'd guess it's a 9000 series?

7bit · 01 Apr 2014, 20:07

I suggest to hold the next keyboard party at kbdfr's place. He has a ton of keyboards he never ever had shown to anybody.
My guess is it either start with 0 (like G80-0876) or is not Cherry made keyboard at all!

kbdfr · 01 Apr 2014, 20:17

It seems not to be a Cherry-made keyboard, but I can't open it to check the innards.
I wouldn't want to break the seal as it says that the warranty would then be void

Warranty seal says "Bull", label says "Bull", keyboard has a "Bull" logo.
Perhaps... a Bull keyboard?

kbdfr · 01 Apr 2014, 20:23

Meanwhile…

webwit wrote:We must delurk him more by posting more rare vintage Cherry objects.

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7bit · 01 Apr 2014, 20:56

Shit! You want to delurk Sixty, but in fact you and Sixty are delurking me!

sixty · 01 Apr 2014, 23:33

kbdfr wrote:Meanwhile…

webwit wrote:We must delurk him more by posting more rare vintage Cherry objects.

Goupil-Gesamtansicht.jpg

I got some of these. I have the bigger brother, too. Trivia: Cherry called this type of G80-1800 case "Prism". They also made similar ones for the 3000 line.