I mean, keycap wise? Sure. Board wise? Probably not
Honestly prefer the looks of the finalized version, but damn thats still so cool. How did you get your hands on it, if you dont mind me asking?webwit wrote: ↑21 Mar 2020, 16:58The prototype case is different from the production case, more photos here:
https://webwit.nl/input/cherry5000/trilogy/
Cool board with an even cooler story, kind of mind boggling it was thrown away (then again, mine was too at some point in its life :p ).webwit wrote: ↑21 Mar 2020, 19:39I got it in 2010, before the keyboard hobby really got big. I was exploring some of the Asian communities, mostly South Korean (they were ahead a bit), together with sixty, and he was really into Cherry and got into trading a lot because they were too. He tipped me about a private sale, didn't have the cash himself and I was into ergonomic keyboards besides IBM. I bought it, from a Chinese guy, located in Germany, who claimed he found it in a dumpster in Italy (it has Italian keycaps). Theory was that it went on a Cherry office tour for evaluation and ended up at the Italian office, and they tossed it later. I didn't know if the sales story was true but took a gamble sending a payment to a guy I knew nothing about, but it arrived and was the real thing.
Nah, that's probably the realistic part. Whether you were working in a Cherry office in those times, a pc clone shop or for a computer magazine with reviews, you got sent a lot of stuff, it ends up in shelves or piles, and you were not contemplating future collectable status. Actually the same reason why everyone trashed their mechanical keyboard over rubber domes. Or anything really. Maybe a lot of phones you tossed or abused become collector items later. The prototype has some battle damage to confirm this status at the time. There are some marks on the case like it was used to rest cigarettes or more likely a soldering iron. It had no value at the time this happened to the people around it, and was then cleared out later.
Thats fair, but most people actually see the 5k and think its something special, just my 2 cents on the subject thoughwebwit wrote: ↑22 Mar 2020, 19:09Nah, that's probably the realistic part. Whether you were working in a Cherry office in those times, a pc clone shop or for a computer magazine with reviews, you got sent a lot of stuff, it ends up in shelves or piles, and you were not contemplating future collectable status. Actually the same reason why everyone trashed their mechanical keyboard over rubber domes. Or anything really. Maybe a lot of phones you tossed or abused become collector items later. The prototype has some battle damage to confirm this status at the time. There are some marks on the case like it was used to rest cigarettes or more likely a soldering iron. It had no value at the time this happened to the people around it, and was then cleared out later.
