Cherry G80-3000 HOG

[Myoth]

Another one of these... This isn't the first time such caps have been seen, and I'm thinking these keyboards actually came from Cherry. The two other places I've seen these keycaps on Cherry keyboards are these :

G81-1000HBE/10 : https://imgur.com/a/Cj9IJji
1600 series keyboard in Cherry's own brochure : wiki/File:G80-1600.pdf

But these caps are seen on Chicony and Monterey boards :
- For Chicony, here are a few exemple of keyboards with keyboards that have similar keycaps :
wiki/Chicony_KB-5161#KB-5161C_Mitsumi_r ... l_switches
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https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=72837.0
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=88566.0

- and Monterey keyboards :
wiki/Monterey_K101#ALPS_SKCM_White_variant
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=69285.0

... so I imagine these caps were cheaper to buy for Cherry than to make their own keycaps

I also imagine that the O is something along the lines of "Variation #X for the G80 series with MX Blues". But this is much deeper in the rabbit hole than I'd like this post to be, and I don't want to ramble on stuff I am not sure of

Spoiler:

Quickly though, the fact that the 1000 is an HBE is for me an hint more valuable than it might seem. A, B, C and D are used in other cases for "generations" (see the 2100), but more than generations, I would like to think these are "variants" of the same model, as newer hardware and shape could be considered features.

This is clearer once you get to know about the 1138HAU and it's more sought after variant, the 1138HBU
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/160638404 ... 1593919742