deskthority

Saw the other Cherry keyboard post, thought you guys might like to see mine as well.

It's a Cherry KXN5-C251, built in Waukegan, IL, late 80's.



Full gallery here.

From the discussion over at geekhack, it seems to be a Cherry version of an IBM 6110344, which is a keyboard for a IBM 3270 PC.

I haven't opened it up and taken pictures of the inside, but I might add those if anyone's curious.

Where do you get this stuff?

Can you take a pic of the underside of a keycap?

ISO layout with nice insert and delete symbols (so vintage ) and made in the US.
nice one.
Is it programmable ?

I got the Cherry in a pile of other stuff from a friend who's work was throwing them out. Had no idea what it was at the time, just looked interesting.

Pics of a few keys have been posted in the gallery.

Is it programmable? Got me, I no longer have a machine I can hook it up to. I emailed Cherry/ZF and they could give me no information on it at all. I cannot even find the part number anywhere.

E TwentyNine wrote:I emailed Cherry/ZF and they could give me no information on it at all. I cannot even find the part number anywhere.

That's not unusual for old keyboards. According to the FCC ID, the keyboard was produced back in 1985, go ahead and take a look at the filing for yourself here.

Cheap IBM clone!