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Need help identifying this old cherry board i got from school.
Posted: 20 Apr 2016, 14:10
by Lunar
Surprisingly clean.

What switch is this?

This is the only label on the board.

This is the plug on it, pretty sure it aint ps2 is there a way to make this work on a windows pc?

Posted: 20 Apr 2016, 14:39
by t!ng
Canot tell, but I am wondering why there is a deeper hole in the capslock in the 2nd picture.
Posted: 20 Apr 2016, 14:43
by andrewjoy
They look a bit like M6 or M7 but with a different housing.
Posted: 20 Apr 2016, 14:47
by Dra
Cherry UB88 as seen on pcwaishe
http://bbs.wstx.com/forum.php?mod=viewt ... &tid=36933, I believe a different variant of the switches tho, which would explain yours being 0005 rather than 0008
Very rare, I've never seen a board like that, someone on geekhack suggested that it's dated back when cherry had their plants in the UK rather than germany
No idea about the connector sadly
Posted: 20 Apr 2016, 14:50
by seebart
Nice find, yes what's up with the hole in the capslock? Pull more caps and take more pics please. That link of yours is not working Dra!
Posted: 20 Apr 2016, 14:53
by Chyros
The connector is an obsolete DIN variant. I suspect it's not going to be easy to get it to work. Ask Orihalcon if his converter might work on it.
Very nice find indeed, I've never seen anything like this

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Posted: 20 Apr 2016, 14:57
by Dra
It's working for me seebart, otherwise just google UB88, pcwaishe should be the first link
Posted: 20 Apr 2016, 15:07
by seebart
Dra wrote: It's working for me seebart, otherwise just google UB88, pcwaishe should be the first link

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In German just for you.

Posted: 20 Apr 2016, 15:25
by Lunar
Okay i took some more pictures and seems like the hole in the caps lock is for an led. Also the space bar has just 3 switches instead of stabilizers
Heres some pics in an imgur gallery
http://i.imgur.com/vDi3fVu.jpg
Posted: 20 Apr 2016, 17:32
by Lunar
http://freespace.virgin.net/tom.baldwin ... -6din.html Found this about the pinouts. Maybe it would be possible to make a ps2 adapter.
Posted: 20 Apr 2016, 18:55
by terrycherry
Lunar, it's the covered version of Cherry M8 but you have the very rare Tee slider. I never seen this before!
Your keyboard is same as the Cherry UB88-0016 keyboard on this thread.(it has the original Cherry M8 white covered version)
keyboards-f2/could-it-be-the-forgotten- ... 11886.html
You should take inside the keyboard and PCB if have time.
And thanks for the pin-out details. It's very nice.
Posted: 20 Apr 2016, 21:27
by Lunar
terrycherry wrote: Lunar, it's the covered version of Cherry M8 but you have the very rare Tee slider. I never seen this before!
Your keyboard is same as the Cherry UB88-0016 keyboard on this thread.(it has the original Cherry M8 white covered version)
keyboards-f2/could-it-be-the-forgotten- ... 11886.html
You should take inside the keyboard and PCB if have time.
And thanks for the pin-out details. It's very nice.
Thanks! Also i opened it and the cable is only connected with 3 wires inside. It's late here so i cant be bothered to upload pics right now but ill make sure i post tomorrow.
Posted: 20 Apr 2016, 23:16
by jacobolus
How do you like the keyswitches?