Cherry G81-1138 HBU

[quochung1989]

Hello,

This is my first post to share my keyboard. Hope to receive more ideas to improve next times.
Yesterday, I got my new board. It's Cherry G81-1138 HBU. I really shock when touch it. Case is quite big,thick & solid.
I loved it
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Inside:

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About color of caps, I think it's more grey than. I think it's same NCR's color. This is my compairing:
From top to bottom is caps from Cherry 3081 SAU, NCR 3077 SAU, 1800 Double-shot and 1138 HBU.

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Thanks for read.

[//gainsborough]

Very neat! I love the classic wedge shape - it's like a cherry model M!

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Hm, I had no idea that the 1000 series was still made in 1998!

[n__dles]

Wow, it's got US-international-ish secondary legends. Nice find.

[quochung1989]

Very neat! I love the classic wedge shape - it's like a cherry model M!

Wow, it's got US-international-ish secondary legends. Nice find.

Thanks!

Hm, I had no idea that the 1000 series was still made in 1998!

Right. It's made in 1998.

[pkzheng]

I saw this one on ebay. Sad I didn't get it. The side-printed keycaps are very nice. Congrats.

[ramnes]

Very nice find!

[seebart]

Very nice indeed! Congrats, I've seen that "Meto" branding before.

[citrojohn]

[...]I've seen that "Meto" branding before.

On a G80-1191HAU, perhaps? I've got a note of that being "METO branded" - but going by the quote-marks and the lack of a hyphen (!) I suspect I'm quoting an unverified description.

[Harshmallow]

I believe that's the first Cherry board I've seen that actually looks well built and isn't just two shin sheets of plastic clipped together. All that reinforcing on the bottom inner case too, not bad! I like it. It does look like a Cherry Model M as Gains mentioned.

[seebart]

[...]I've seen that "Meto" branding before.

On a G80-1191HAU, perhaps? I've got a note of that being "METO branded" - but going by the quote-marks and the lack of a hyphen (!) I suspect I'm quoting an unverified description.

Hmm good question, with the amount of keyboards I look at...I forgot now.

I believe that's the first Cherry board I've seen that actually looks well built and isn't just two shin sheets of plastic clipped together. All that reinforcing on the bottom inner case too, not bad! I like it. It does look like a Cherry Model M as Gains mentioned.

The G80-1000 cases are indeed sturdier even tough still PCB mounted of course. I used to think all Cherry PCB mount solutions had some flex in the PCB. Wrong. The Cherry G80-0528 I got a while ago for example is rock solid:

wiki/Cherry_G80-0528

Another example is the Commodore PC-5/PC-10 keyboard which is not that rare:

wiki/Commodore_PC-5/PC-10_keyboard

[citrojohn]

Found the 1191 - it's in an IvanIvanovich post, so of course the photo's disappeared by now. But since it's "former", there's a chance someone public has it...
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=38482.0