Cherry G80-0902

[jmakar]

Hi, i'm new to Deskthority and mechanical keyboards altogether; and I'd like to apologize for my English in advance.

I've been browsing my local Craigslist-like site for cheap mech keyboards, and I found this one: Cherry G80-0902.

It was priced at only $13, so I instantly pulled the trigger on it.

The thing is, I can't find information on it anywhere, and I'd like to info like when it was produced.

Here are two pictures I got from the site; it should arrive in about two days.

I instantly noticed it looks nowhere like the G80-0904, which has a similar model number.

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pic2.jpg (28.8 KiB) Viewed 2012 times

As the images are low-res, here are some details I could make out:

G80-0902 H /09
Serial: 9334 A44 (?)
643-0223 WD-L (?)
Made in West Germany (so, it was made earlier than 1991)
German layout

[002]

Cool - closest thing (looks-wise) I can see in the wiki is probably the G80-1500 and 1501

[mintberryminuscrunch]

looks like a G80-1000 to me. nice find

[Daniel]

Cool - closest thing (looks-wise) I can see in the wiki is probably the G80-1500 and 1501

More like a G80-1000 as the 1501 had a windowed caps-lock and numlock key.

I really like the sideprinted US layout

[002]

Yeah I don't know how I missed that...
/crawls back to Topre cave

[IvanIvanovich]

Yes it appears to be just like a G80-1000. I suppose it has the special model number due to the keycaps, or some other feature that is not apparent. What is the layout on it, it is hard to see in the photo is it Swiss?

[jmakar]

Yes it appears to be just like a G80-1000. I suppose it has the special model number due to the keycaps, or some other feature that is not apparent. What is the layout on it, it is hard to see in the photo is it Swiss?

I think it's German.
It could be Swiss German.