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by citrojohn
23 Jan 2018, 13:54
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Suggestions for an Inexpensive New or Used Japanese Layout?
Replies: 18
Views: 4373

Cherry made some JIS-layout keyboards, though I suspect they're quite scarce outside Japan. They're the G80-3600LYCJA (probably rare - our wiki says 3600s were looted for their early Reds) and the G80-11802LPAJA . (NB, both these models also came in American ANSI layouts - look for the JA on the end...
by citrojohn
23 Jan 2018, 12:52
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread
Replies: 5301
Views: 1518121

I have a relatively recent list of Cherry keyboards, which I downloaded in January 2016 when silent switches were still very new. (I think the list may have been produced by Cherry, because I've seen it on several different sites.) G80-11900LTMxx seems to have been supplied with a pair of adapters f...
by citrojohn
23 Nov 2017, 14:55
Forum: Call for nominees
Topic: Best vintage keyboard or relic
Replies: 13
Views: 17032

Cyberovca's Tipro T141A, which revealed a previously-unknown period of Tipro's history and an undiscovered switch: keyboards-f2/tipro-t141a-early-tipro-bo ... 15484.html
by citrojohn
10 Oct 2017, 15:00
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Schneider G81-3026 w/ Vintage MY switches - $3.5 Flea market find!
Replies: 8
Views: 2063

Great! We need more wiki editors. :D

Just noticed the Schneider's got the original-type MYs. Which might actually be reasonable to type on...
by citrojohn
10 Oct 2017, 12:47
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Schneider G81-3026 w/ Vintage MY switches - $3.5 Flea market find!
Replies: 8
Views: 2063

Mm, that's nice for $3.50, and it's interesting to see another Schneider keyboard. And it's a 3000 variation I haven't seen before, too. Do you want to add it to the wiki's list of variations , or shall I? :) The Videoton looks like rubberdome to me - the smaller keys are hard to achieve with mechan...
by citrojohn
28 Sep 2017, 20:50
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Regarding Outemu Blues
Replies: 11
Views: 3727

Also for what it's worth: someone on Reddit found it was possible to press Outemu blues and hear the click without actuating the switch - thread here . Possibly there is/was some quality issue with Outemus - or a slight difference in design compared with other MX. Out of interest, rich1051414, are y...
by citrojohn
29 Aug 2017, 13:31
Forum: Deskthority talk
Topic: Guests, Google and the Marketplace
Replies: 35
Views: 10052

I'm another one who generally doesn't log in unless I want to comment or send a message - partly because my archaic mobile browsers take ages to sign in on. The thought occurs: if DT is a recognised authority for prices, one way to get Ebay prices down is to sell things cheaply on the marketplace. :...
by citrojohn
24 Aug 2017, 23:22
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Cherry G80-3600 Mouseboard (yes, 3600!)
Replies: 6
Views: 2797

This is what I expect a "mouseboard" to look like: IMGP6828.JPG Oh look, a proto-11800 ... https://deskthority.net/w/images/0/00/Chicony_KB-5581.jpeg and what was the behemothic one with all the keys in the normal places and a trackball? Now this is an interesting parallel I didn't know about - Foc...
by citrojohn
24 Aug 2017, 15:40
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Cherry G80-3600 Mouseboard (yes, 3600!)
Replies: 6
Views: 2797

subcat wrote: http://www.ebay.de/itm/263157548254

Yours for the low low price of... 500 euros.
Not bad for a trash find! https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyb ... oard_with/
by citrojohn
24 Aug 2017, 15:02
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Cherry G80-3600 Mouseboard (yes, 3600!)
Replies: 6
Views: 2797

Cherry G80-3600 Mouseboard (yes, 3600!)

I must have missed this when it came up on Reddit last month. It's a original-style Cherry Mouseboard with the Mousepad, like the 3500. But the model number is G80-3600 . I assumed a typo on the part of the uploader - but it is 3600, and there's even a FCC application under that number. http://i.img...
by citrojohn
24 Aug 2017, 13:28
Forum: News
Topic: Cherry MX Board 5.0 to feature advanced keyboard feet and ergonomics
Replies: 6
Views: 2842

Offtopicthority strikes again! :lol: Couple more links: http://koaladota2.com/2017/08/24/cherry-mx-board-5-0-ergonomic-mechanical-keyboard/ , https://mechboards.co.uk/cherry-announce-new-mx-board-5-0-twitter-g80-3920/ Well, the feet are interesting. I have my doubts as to whether all the positions t...
by citrojohn
14 Aug 2017, 00:00
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Any tips for an incoming college freshman?
Replies: 27
Views: 9701

There's a long-established tradition for advice-giving: we try to push you away from the mistakes we made and end up pushing you into others. So don't follow any advice anyone gives you too thoroughly - including this advice! College is about a hell of a lot more than your subject. Apart from anythi...
by citrojohn
08 Aug 2017, 23:46
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: What makes a "Linux" keyboard different from a "Windows" keyboard?
Replies: 57
Views: 17431

do you have any examples of linux keyboards? I've never heard of such a thing, unless you mean ones which have penguins instead of flags on mod4/super/winkey? Cherry Cymotion Master XPress Linux: I'm late to the party again, I fear - Seebart got in before me! But there is another Cherry "Linux" key...
by citrojohn
13 Jul 2017, 16:00
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Cherry G80-3497 and G80-1867: Korean MX-Boards (anyone speak Korean?)
Replies: 1
Views: 1577

Cherry G80-3497 and G80-1867: Korean MX-Boards (anyone speak Korean?)

I found Cherry's Korean site by accident today ( http://cherryko.co.kr/ ), and discovered they have two KO-layout keyboards listed. They're both branded MX-Board. I speak no Korean at all, so if anyone can add more detail to what I've gleaned please feel free to do so! :) (Warning: for some reason C...
by citrojohn
29 Jun 2017, 12:58
Forum: News
Topic: Cherry MX-BOARD 1.0 TKL?
Replies: 7
Views: 4278

So, is "MX Board 1.0" (without the hyphen) a separate sequence from G80-1000 (which we assume to be MX-Board 1.0¹) and G80-3800/3850 (MX-Board 2.0 and 3.0)? I think of the G80-3494 and 3600 as the MX-Board 1.0 (and perhaps 1.1!). IIRC they were only badged MX-Board, but I presume it works like mona...
by citrojohn
22 Jun 2017, 15:41
Forum: Other external
Topic: Great/Interesting Finds
Replies: 26262
Views: 8642938

Mitsumi miniature is the switch that everyone thinks just "can't be that bad". It is that bad. I always wonder if they'd be better with smaller caps like the ones on that Devlin post-office board - really it isn't all that surprising they bind considering how narrow the switch body is compared with...
by citrojohn
22 Jun 2017, 15:33
Forum: Gallery
Topic: Triad Cherry G80-3314HAU
Replies: 7
Views: 2936

That's a gorgeous spacebar - and I'm curious how awful that layout can really be. Does any modern custom set have a 9u spacebar??
by citrojohn
13 Jun 2017, 22:44
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: What do you collect?
Replies: 101
Views: 21825

Mr.Nobody wrote: pictures like this?
Hmm, isn't that the one that had too much frontage for racing and had to be supplemented by a sportier model? (You can supply your own punchline. ;))
It transpires that car is a Playboy prize. It took me a few looks to realise it is in fact pink. Unusually subtle for Playboy!
by citrojohn
04 Jun 2017, 20:16
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: What do you collect?
Replies: 101
Views: 21825

If I had the money and space I'd collect anything old and weird, including weird old keyboards. As it is I have a few of several different things (phones, cameras, keyboards, old computers), assortments of things like car magazines that are more conglomerations than collections, and large numbers of...
by citrojohn
19 May 2017, 00:47
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Tell me your first keyboard!
Replies: 121
Views: 29337

snuci wrote: Commodore PET 4032
Hm, I just realised why I like numpads so much... a PET 4016 was probably the first keyboard of any sort I used. (Unless we're including the very mechanical keyboards for Solresol...)
by citrojohn
18 May 2017, 15:34
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Tell me your first keyboard!
Replies: 121
Views: 29337

Well, the first mechanical keyboard I bought was a Tipro MID from kbdfr. I also bought some weird caps with it, and I am now trying to get the hang of typing without looking so I can use them! Before that I got a Cherry G84-4400 for free, which is my work board. Before I got into mechs I bought a ro...
by citrojohn
16 May 2017, 16:26
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: On the Dialekt-Tastatur. Anyone translate Frankish dialect?
Replies: 4
Views: 1535

Ah! Like English people's difficulties with the Scottish/German ch. (I sometimes think it must puzzle Germans that the English don't have that sound. Maybe we should invent a separate symbol for it...) Thanks for the translation - they're always better from a human! :) The linguist in me now wishes ...
by citrojohn
16 May 2017, 14:56
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: On the Dialekt-Tastatur. Anyone translate Frankish dialect?
Replies: 4
Views: 1535

On the Dialekt-Tastatur. Anyone translate Frankish dialect?

While investigating the Cherry Dialekt-Tastatur (aka G83-6919) I came across the following bit of text written in what's presumably Frankish dialect. I can get the gist of it with Google's help (FY layout is a revision of an earlier one, probably ZY, in response to suggestions from users), but I'm i...
by citrojohn
25 Apr 2017, 12:53
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Poll - Caps and Controll swapping
Replies: 24
Views: 4989

The only time I've used it was on an Acorn Archimedes, at school. Ctrl next to A didn't suit inexact typists, particularly since typing replaced the selected text... I was unusually popular when I found out where Undo was. :cool: I'm not convinced it'd help me much, since I don't keep my hands on th...
by citrojohn
21 Apr 2017, 12:58
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Cherry G84-4321: folding keyboard, possibly with MLs
Replies: 14
Views: 4174

Just the model number of this 'Cherry' board offers immediate ways (ML switches and PBT dyesub caps) to verify if the keyboard itself is real or fake, you know "keebs don't lie". Yes - that's one reason I like Cherry so much, one can "read" the article numbers and find out what a keyboard ought to ...
by citrojohn
21 Apr 2017, 01:16
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Cherry G84-4321: folding keyboard, possibly with MLs
Replies: 14
Views: 4174

Well, that J keyboard is just a bog standard rubber dome. I had a very similar one. Do you know what switches each of those J keyboards have? Well, the J82 are rubber-dome as we know, though I don't know how J82 domes relate to G82. I think the J86 has rubber domes under its metal caps. But I don't...
by citrojohn
20 Apr 2017, 23:56
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Cherry G84-4321: folding keyboard, possibly with MLs
Replies: 14
Views: 4174

I don't know that they ever had a Chinese branch, Well, what I mean really is wherever they make the MX-Boards - I had the impression the original ones were a Chinese initiative. Though that may be me misinterpreting as usual. ;) only that they subcontracted out at least one model to Chicony: http:...
by citrojohn
20 Apr 2017, 19:58
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Cherry G84-4321: folding keyboard, possibly with MLs
Replies: 14
Views: 4174

(not just the two I'm alleged to have looked at) Ah, I should have realised you'd do some research! :oops: I didn't want to give the impression you'd seen all the photos if there was something in one of the others that made MLs impossible. :) [...]It seems too widespread to be a hoax, so is it just...
by citrojohn
20 Apr 2017, 18:01
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Cherry G84-4321: folding keyboard, possibly with MLs
Replies: 14
Views: 4174

I'm pretty sure this is joke, note the winky smiley and the fact he acknowledges the pad printed marks! Yes, I did wonder about using brownfont... Considering people are still finding it difficult to dyesub white-on-black now, it seemed unlikely that Cherry had solved it in 2005 - or that if they h...
by citrojohn
20 Apr 2017, 14:20
Forum: Keyboards
Topic: Cherry G84-4321: folding keyboard, possibly with MLs
Replies: 14
Views: 4174

Cherry G84-4321: folding keyboard, possibly with MLs

This is a circa-50% folding keyboard with USB connection, for PDAs with USB host according to the review I found. It seems to be Russian-layout only; black caps with white Roman (English) legends, Cyrillic legends in red and functions in blue. http://mobile-review.com/pda/review/image/acsessories/ch...

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