Cherry SAT: Czech dyesub keycaps - the third take - English version

hansichen

13 Nov 2018, 22:41

Most people in this hobby are probably familiar with original Cherry dyesub keycaps and many people know the legendary Czech sets with blue sublegends, especially cause of scottc's find of 10 nib boards years ago. When comparing these sets we can notice several versions of the set:

The standard Cherry one found by scottc:
Image

And the "peacock" SAT version:

Image

These two sets have some differences in their layout but in general they feature standard European icon modifier keys and Czech top printing with blue English front printing. Recently I was able to obtain a third version of these caps: a version with English as first language and blue Czech printings (placed on the top and not the front). Also this set features some unique ISO text mods (which normally only exist on ANSI dyesub sets), especially the (ugly) 1,25u Shift key which doesn't exist in any other European dyesub set as far as I know.

Here are some pictures of the set (sorry for the photatoes but it's winter with really bad lightning :( ):
IMG_0172.JPG
IMG_0172.JPG (8.45 MiB) Viewed 3222 times
IMG_0173.JPG
IMG_0173.JPG (7.35 MiB) Viewed 3222 times
IMG_0174.JPG
IMG_0174.JPG (7.64 MiB) Viewed 3222 times
IMG_0175.JPG
IMG_0175.JPG (7.3 MiB) Viewed 3222 times
IMG_0176.JPG
IMG_0176.JPG (7.59 MiB) Viewed 3222 times
IMG_0177.JPG
IMG_0177.JPG (7.63 MiB) Viewed 3222 times
IMG_0178.JPG
IMG_0178.JPG (8.4 MiB) Viewed 3222 times

User avatar
scottc

14 Nov 2018, 00:20

So cool. Interesting to see the differences side-by-side. This set is such a weird mixture of English vs. Czech primary legends with the others as secondary.

User avatar
ramnes
ПБТ НАВСЕГДА

14 Nov 2018, 11:43

Very nice! Do you happen to know the part number?

hansichen

14 Nov 2018, 12:22

Sadly not. The seller offered only the caps without the actual keyboard so I can't check the label.

davkol

17 Nov 2018, 19:56

scottc wrote: So cool. Interesting to see the differences side-by-side. This set is such a weird mixture of English vs. Czech primary legends with the others as secondary.
What's weird there? It's US on the left, CZ on the right. Only Y/Z might be swapped.

User avatar
photekq
Cherry Picker

28 Dec 2018, 01:58

Nice find. They could be from this board (thanks mm87 if you're still here) :

Image
Image

User avatar
Myoth

28 Dec 2018, 02:06

photekq comes out of his cave and pinpoints the right keyboard these came from, what a legend !!

User avatar
photekq
Cherry Picker

28 Dec 2018, 02:15

Myoth wrote: photekq comes out of his cave
hey, it's a shack not a cave!

hansichen

28 Dec 2018, 11:12

Thanks for sharing the pictures photeq. I knew the top picture of the board, good to see the label as well.

Post Reply

Return to “Gallery”