deskthority

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

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

cjizzer wrote: ↑

21 Jun 2022, 06:31

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kbdfr wrote: ↑

21 Jun 2022, 07:13

cjizzer wrote: ↑

21 Jun 2022, 06:31

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

Lanrefni wrote: ↑

21 Jun 2022, 07:56

kbdfr wrote: ↑

21 Jun 2022, 07:13

cjizzer wrote: ↑

21 Jun 2022, 06:31

[…] desolder the switches […]

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

Will keep it as is!

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

kbdfr wrote: ↑

21 Jun 2022, 07:13

cjizzer wrote: ↑

21 Jun 2022, 06:31

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go away

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

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.