DCA IRMAkey/3270 & Vintage Cherry MX White/Clear

[cjizzer]

Found this beautiful oddity at my local flea market this past weekend. It was quite hard finding any information on it since mine is missing the original label. Thank god I found DT and was lucky enough to stumble across some older posts with info. Not sure if I want to desolder the switches or keep it stock. Anyways, just wanted to share my current find with the world. I'll try to record a sound test video in the near future.

DCA IRMAkey/3270
MFG by Cherry USA
Year: Mid-Late 1980s?
Model: KXN5-C651 / BXN5-C651
Switches:

• 121x Early Cherry MX White (Clear/Translucent Stems) "Soft Click"
  4x Vintage Cherry MX Super Black
  1x Vintage Cherry MX Linear Grey

Keycaps: Dye Sub

[Jesseg]

These are super awesome boards. Does yours work through a converter?
What do you think of the switches?

[kbdfr]

[…] desolder the switches […]

[Lanrefni]

[…] desolder the switches […]

Agreed,that beauty is mint and has a perfectly functional layout,no reason whatsoever to desolder.

[cjizzer]

[…] desolder the switches […]

Agreed,that beauty is mint and has a perfectly functional layout,no reason whatsoever to desolder.

Will keep it as is!

[inozenz]

got one of these, interestingly mine has purple dye subs. other then that. its identical. Sadly i am also missing the metal batch.

[Jesseg]

[…] desolder the switches […]

go away

[Plaketdebeur]

I just got a more or less similar model, I'll take more detailed pictures later, but it's also with mx white. The keycaps are double shots. The reference cherry g80-1095H ( hard to read) with iso-be layout

[Plaketdebeur]

Here are some more photos and details.
- 121 mx white (clicky)
- 1 mx grey (clicky)
- 4 mx super black
article numbers: G80-1095H
All keycaps are doubleshot, except the one with a window and the "esc" on the number pad.