Did Compaq ever sell G80-1500?

[Daniel]

I just missed an ebay auction of a older compaq keyboard, which in my opinion just looks like a G80-1500. Now I asked myself if Compaq ever sold relabled G80-1500?

I know about the Compaq G80-11800 but never heard of 1500.

Whats your opinion of the picture? Better pictures are not available as the auction only had one.

[rodtang]

That's no cherry board.

[Ascaii]

My guess is keytronic foam and foils in the best case, early compaq RDs in the worst. Only one way to find out though...^^

[Findecanor]

That is not Key Tronic's font.

[kint]

I thought a lot about those.
Seller already sold 2 boards like these and they were dubbed "RT101".
Didn't ever gave a sane response to me asking about the Model # of this.
Google did bring up a Geekhack thread were afair sixty pointed out: Rubberdome.
Whoever wants to check:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Compaq-RT101-RT ... 0933334352
but made in Thailand doesn't really indicate Cherry.

[Daniel]

Hey thanks for your answers! I think its obviously no G80-1500 clone, if you look at the pictures in the auction which kint provided.

[rodtang]

I thought a lot about those.
Seller already sold 2 boards like these and they were dubbed "RT101".
Didn't ever gave a sane response to me asking about the Model # of this.
Google did bring up a Geekhack thread were afair sixty pointed out: Rubberdome.

There are some newer RT101's(they don't look anything like this one) that are rubber dome.

It's most likely RD but there is a slight chance it has Fujitsu switches, I'll do more research tomorrow.

[Daniel]

For more information on the board see: http://deskthority.net/photos-videos-f8 ... t4373.html

[IvanIvanovich]

Compaq only used Cherry for a couple keyboards. The G80-11801LPAUS (compaq part number 185152-001) and the G80-1838HPU (compaq part number 185367-001) are the easiest to find. There are also some European and Japanese variants of these, but I don't know the compaq part numbers, which is how I have found them most easy to find for sale NIB. The Japanese 11802LPAJA is probably the only JIS layout Cherry G80 I have ever seen. Defineatly one I have an eye out for.

[guilleguillaume]

Fantastic keyboard lysol. I love the JIS layout and this keyboard looks interesting.