Cherry G80-1300 (but not really) Yugoslavian Layout (These Images Will Shock You!)
Posted: 05 Nov 2022, 16:18
Found this very cool and very weird board recently, appears to be some sort of a wiki/Cherry_G80-1300 but not really since it sports a completely different (and crazy) case and absolutely no Cherry branding (it does however come with *lovely* MX vintage blacks and doubleshot Cherry keycaps we've grown to love and appreciate 
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Now for the weird stuff:
- the board has been converted to 5DIN and works with a computer through a passive 5DIN to PS2 adapter (all the G80-1300s I've seen were RJ11 terminal boards, the conversion looks hand done, but hear me out it gets weirder),
- the board was new in box, sadly I got no box (was thrown out by the seller),
- the case is unlike anything I've seen, including weird "pen mounts". foam feet and a foam wrist rest (think of the foam grippy handle bars on your local bus). The height of the board is adjustable using the weird pencil holder thing, but you need to open it in order to adjust it (it slides up and down and you slot the backplate into one of the holes),
- the Yugoslav caps have side printing (in sexy red!),
- it has pre-programmed macros (most of the blank caps on the board are programmed to act as macros for a software unknown to me),
- super cool RED LEDs for the lock keys.
Now, someone (thanks Jacob!) has pointed out to me that it might be an AST keyboard wiki/AST_Research due to the ROM chip having "AST" written on it and it using the same branding as other AST boards. That would make sense since the board appears to be some sort of low quantity, specialized order/reuse of old VT220 terminal Cherry keyboards for use with modern systems.
If anyone has any more info on this thing I'd sure appreciate it!
However for now enjoy some pictures of the thing:
).Now for the weird stuff:
- the board has been converted to 5DIN and works with a computer through a passive 5DIN to PS2 adapter (all the G80-1300s I've seen were RJ11 terminal boards, the conversion looks hand done, but hear me out it gets weirder),
- the board was new in box, sadly I got no box (was thrown out by the seller),
- the case is unlike anything I've seen, including weird "pen mounts". foam feet and a foam wrist rest (think of the foam grippy handle bars on your local bus). The height of the board is adjustable using the weird pencil holder thing, but you need to open it in order to adjust it (it slides up and down and you slot the backplate into one of the holes),
- the Yugoslav caps have side printing (in sexy red!),
- it has pre-programmed macros (most of the blank caps on the board are programmed to act as macros for a software unknown to me),
- super cool RED LEDs for the lock keys.
Now, someone (thanks Jacob!) has pointed out to me that it might be an AST keyboard wiki/AST_Research due to the ROM chip having "AST" written on it and it using the same branding as other AST boards. That would make sense since the board appears to be some sort of low quantity, specialized order/reuse of old VT220 terminal Cherry keyboards for use with modern systems.
If anyone has any more info on this thing I'd sure appreciate it!
However for now enjoy some pictures of the thing:
