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Cherry G81-1138 HBU
Posted: 26 Mar 2017, 03:08
by quochung1989
Hello,
This is my first post to share my keyboard. Hope to receive more ideas to improve next times.
Yesterday, I got my new board. It's Cherry G81-1138 HBU. I really shock when touch it. Case is quite big,thick & solid.
I loved it
Outside:
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Inside:
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About color of caps, I think it's more grey than. I think it's same NCR's color. This is my compairing:
From top to bottom is caps from Cherry 3081 SAU, NCR 3077 SAU, 1800 Double-shot and 1138 HBU.
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Thanks for read.
Posted: 26 Mar 2017, 03:12
by //gainsborough
Very neat! I love the classic wedge shape - it's like a cherry model M!
Posted: 26 Mar 2017, 03:39
by Daniel Beardsmore
Hm, I had no idea that the 1000 series was still made in 1998!
Posted: 26 Mar 2017, 04:55
by n__dles
Wow, it's got US-international-ish secondary legends. Nice find.
Posted: 26 Mar 2017, 11:37
by quochung1989
//gainsborough wrote: ↑Very neat! I love the classic wedge shape - it's like a cherry model M!
n__dles wrote: ↑Wow, it's got US-international-ish secondary legends. Nice find.
Thanks!
Daniel Beardsmore wrote: ↑Hm, I had no idea that the 1000 series was still made in 1998!
Right. It's made in 1998.
Posted: 26 Mar 2017, 12:29
by pkzheng
I saw this one on ebay. Sad I didn't get it. The side-printed keycaps are very nice. Congrats.
Posted: 26 Mar 2017, 17:58
by ramnes
Very nice find!
Posted: 26 Mar 2017, 18:00
by seebart
Very nice indeed! Congrats, I've seen that "Meto" branding before.
Posted: 27 Mar 2017, 00:17
by citrojohn
seebart wrote: ↑[...]I've seen that "Meto" branding before.
On a G80-1191HAU, perhaps? I've got a note of that being "METO branded" - but going by the quote-marks and the lack of a hyphen (!) I suspect I'm quoting an unverified description.
Posted: 27 Mar 2017, 05:47
by Harshmallow
I believe that's the first Cherry board I've seen that actually looks well built and isn't just two shin sheets of plastic clipped together. All that reinforcing on the bottom inner case too, not bad! I like it. It does look like a Cherry Model M as Gains mentioned.
Posted: 27 Mar 2017, 07:02
by seebart
citrojohn wrote: ↑seebart wrote: ↑[...]I've seen that "Meto" branding before.
On a G80-1191HAU, perhaps? I've got a note of that being "METO branded" - but going by the quote-marks and the lack of a hyphen (!) I suspect I'm quoting an unverified description.
Hmm good question, with the amount of keyboards I look at...I forgot now.
Harshmallow wrote:I believe that's the first Cherry board I've seen that actually looks well built and isn't just two shin sheets of plastic clipped together. All that reinforcing on the bottom inner case too, not bad! I like it. It does look like a Cherry Model M as Gains mentioned.
The G80-1000 cases are indeed sturdier even tough still PCB mounted of course. I used to think all Cherry PCB mount solutions had some flex in the PCB. Wrong. The Cherry G80-0528 I got a while ago for example is rock solid:
wiki/Cherry_G80-0528
Another example is the Commodore PC-5/PC-10 keyboard which is not that rare:
wiki/Commodore_PC-5/PC-10_keyboard
Posted: 27 Mar 2017, 08:36
by citrojohn
Found the 1191 - it's in an IvanIvanovich post, so of course the photo's disappeared by now. But since it's "former", there's a chance someone public has it...
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=38482.0