Cherry switches

[Icarium]

One of the DT banners up top shows several cherry or cherry like switches. Some with grey top housing, others clear, and even one with a yellow sliders. What are these? *want*

[webwit]

From sixty's collection. Transparent housing is Nixdorf. i guess the yellow switch is like the yellow switches in the Rapoo.

[7bit]

Yellow is a clone and the transparent ones where a special order by Nixdorf.

I've got the information that we can have any color/spring as long as we order 750,000 switches*. Don't know how much the price for a single switch would be.

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*) Good for
2343 keyboards with 320 switches (kbdfr's Tipro lineup), or
4032 keyboards with 186 switches (7bit's Tipro lineup), or
5952 keyboards with 126 switches (like the G80-2551), or
7211 keyboards with 104 switches (like almost any), or
8620 keyboards with 87 switches (like PHANSI), or
10869 keyboards with 69 switches (like HHKB JP).

[Icarium]

What about the black in grey?

[7bit]

What about the black in grey?

I'm waiting for the group buy....

-Interest-Check-Cherry-MX-Green-Grey-Latching-switches (might be down or cracked)

[webwit]

They only need 749,000 more.

[Ascaii]

Ive got a lot of those switches in my personal switch box...if you are ever in Berlin, or manage to come to one of our DT Biertische in Berlin I would be glad to show them to you. I have the yellow, nixdorf clear black, grey latching grey, dark grey, green, blue, dark blue, clear, white(clicky), as well as a cherry microswitch in my box. The rarer ones are from sixty.

[Icarium]

*envy*

[byFd]

let's make 750,000 purple switches!

[webwit]

[Ascaii]

let's make 750,000 purple switches!

Well...either royal purple or pink...somehow that faked pink cherry switch pic got me thinking.

[7bit]

I want them in violett with a clear housing and a golden spring (so nothing gets rusty if I bath my keyboard)!

[Icarium]

What the...?
Okay, where in the Netherlands are you? I suppose you do have a keyboard museum, right? :p

[webwit]

That is not my keyboard nor my photoshop.

[kps]

Perhaps someone knowledgeable here can comment on this keyboard of mine with its black (latching linear), white (linear), grey-green (firm linear), and pale yellow (ultra-firm linear) switches.

[ripster]

Props. Respect.

It's an African American term if you are from the EU.

[Daemon Raccoon]

Perhaps someone knowledgeable here can comment on this keyboard of mine with its black (latching linear), white (linear), grey-green (firm linear), and pale yellow (ultra-firm linear) switches.

I've heard of the latching switch, but the others!?

What keyboard is that?

[mintberryminuscrunch]

[7bit]

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It is totally worthless, but I'm generous and would pay you 5 EUR plus shipping for it.

[xbb]

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It is totally worthless, but I'm generous and would pay you 5 EUR plus shipping for it.

If you buy it I'll proxy it for you…

[7bit]

If you buy it I'll proxy it for you…

That would be awesome!
:naive:

[kps]

What keyboard is that?

It belongs to my Xerox 1109 Lisp workstation, better known for the version without an FPU card sold with office software, the Xerox 8010 "Star". Intially (1981) these were sold with a thick, long-stem keyboard with spherical caps. Some time between then and 1985, when the 8010 / 1108 platform was replaced, they switched to this new "low profile" keyboard.

It is totally worthless, but I'm generous and would pay you 5 EUR plus shipping for it.

Hey, I spent almost twice that on the system, ten years ago. The last non-working 110x to show up on eBay went for around $3500, though. Still a lot less than they sold for originally.

[7bit]

Interesting it has no Control keys or other modifiers except for Shift.

I like the extra keys to the left.

[Circlepit]

I want them in violett with a clear housing and a golden spring (so nothing gets rusty if I bath my keyboard)!

Where you get golden srpings?

[7bit]

http://www.hotel-goldspring.de/
http://www.golden-spring.com/

[kps]

Interesting it has no Control key or other modifiers except for Shift.

This derives from PARC Smalltalk/Star GUI philosophy. As described in The Smalltalk Environment by Larry Tesler in the August 1981 issue of BYTE,

The “shift lock” key and analogous commands like “bold shift” and “underline shift” cause modes for the interpretation of subsequently typed characters. However, shifts are familiar to people and are relatively harmless. The worst they do is change a “d” to a “D”, “d”, or “d”, never to a Delete command.

[webwit]

Lacks a lot of keys for a proper lisp machine keyboard, but since I'm collecting them, hmm, ok, I'll beat 7bit's offer and give you 6 EUR for it!

[Icarium]

I'll just shut up and be jealous.

[Ekaros]

Yellow is a clone and the transparent ones where a special order by Nixdorf.

I've got the information that we can have any color/spring as long as we order 750,000 switches*. Don't know how much the price for a single switch would be.

------------
*) Good for
2343 keyboards with 320 switches (kbdfr's Tipro lineup), or
4032 keyboards with 186 switches (7bit's Tipro lineup), or
5952 keyboards with 126 switches (like the G80-2551), or
7211 keyboards with 104 switches (like almost any), or
8620 keyboards with 87 switches (like PHANSI), or
10869 keyboards with 69 switches (like HHKB JP).

We should do ISO boards:
7 143 See, less boards!

[Findecanor]

Oh... The Xerox Star. Some time ago, I came across these videos of how the GUI was operated. It explains what the special keys are for...

... and I also agree with the notion that Caps Lock keys should be latching.