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Received this today...very happy!
I am hoping to open up the case in a few days to see if the PCB has any markings to identify date of production or internal cherry designation for this.
Another find, this one is a few weeks old. A PCB from an old electric typewriter, an Olympus of some kind.
The switches are LINEAR MX white/clear. The same switches as on my Loewe BTX keyboard.
Also, note the DT caps!

Those blue caps are the same colour as the police board sixty had for a while, they were also awfully yellowed.
(Someone find me a link now that keyboardporn is down)

Nice find!
Is that what you were talking about?

DeathAdder wrote:Nice find!
Is that what you were talking about?

Yes, this is the one I was talking about.
How are the doubleshots doing?

wow, what a beautiful pice of art.

cherry

Wow, very nice, thank you for the pics!

nice caps bro

Nice find, very strange things in the layout though. Some key placements on vintage boards are so perplexing. First time I've seen both caps and shift lock with dedicated keys like that.

Sexxxiiii!!!

Those blue keycaps are really awesome.. great find!

lysol wrote:First time I've seen both caps and shift lock with dedicated keys like that.

I have some old 1980s computers with separate Caps Lock and Shift Lock keys. The only purpose I ever saw in Shift Lock was that the OS would light up both the Caps Lock and Shift Lock LEDs when an OS buffer was full (e.g. printer buffer, sound channel buffer) and the system was hung on a buffer write command, or when paged scrolling was enabled and it was waiting for a keypress to go to the next page. ("Scroll Lock" was either Ctrl+N or Ctrl+O; whichever it was, the other one turned it off. There was no key for this, nor an LED.)

Basically it ended up just being a spare LED that the OS could use to signal without needing to interfere with screen contents. (Since it was impossible to have Caps Lock and Shift Lock enabled simultaneously.)

I'm guessing it was put on old computers to sooth typists who were used to manual typewriters which didn't have Caps Lock?

Are the blue/grey keycaps the same color as the modern "Cherry albino grey"?

mbodrov wrote:Are the blue/grey keycaps the same color as the modern "Cherry albino grey"?

Not sure which grey you mean actually...but here is a commodore cherry for comparison.

I think they are asking if color is like on the hellgrau 1501 for example?

Hm, dont have one, but Ive got enough "regular" cherry doubleshots if anyone wants a comparison.

Isn't your Cherry 3700 hellgrau?

Ascaii wrote:Not sure which grey you mean actually...

I mean when Cherry stopped making their keyboards in the old color scheme of white alphanumerics and grey modifiers, and switched to all-black or all-white (albino). The G80-3000Lasered currently in production is a good example.

That white color of the all-white keyboards is in fact a greyish shade, kind of inbetween the old white and grey, hence "modern Cherry albino grey".

Yellow Slider,linear

Fake Cherry yellow. I'm pretty sure sixty sent me one of these switches before.

Jim66 wrote:Fake Cherry yellow. I'm pretty sure sixty sent me one of these switches before.

Those came from that fully programmable cheap as hell board, this proves that they have been around for a while and aren't anything new.

The typewriter is an aeg olympia mastertype. I can get one for €5 like this aeg olympia mastertype 120:


is it worth it for the caps and switches?

For 5€ I wouldn't think twice, especially seeing the windowed Shift Lock cap - looks like Cherry.

The keycaps might be lasered and at least Cherry compatible, I had something similar some time ago:
http://deskthority.net/photos-videos-f8 ... t1316.html
The Enter keycap looks very similar.