Hi there,

I discoverd this board last week after I killed a few keys of my G81-3000 at work with a cup of tea. I recalled the nice clicky sound and feel of a G80 and he got a G80-LSCDE-2 for my desk (although the G81 dryed out and was back on track two days later). Until this event I always thought G80 was clicky and G81 was non clicky. This is obviously not true, but now I am trying to queston my keyboard history.

I'm from germany and needless to say I grew up with Cherry keyboards. The first PC I used was one im my father's company , it was 1992 and it had a Cherry with non-clicky keys. In 1993 he got a 486 DX2/66 for his company with a clicky Cherry. I got my own PC in 1995 and just ordered it with a Cherry keyboard and didn't specify anything it didn't click and soon after that I switched the keyboard with the clicky one from my father's company.

This keyboard I used until 2006 (when I got my actual PC). It was, no it is a Cherry G80-3000 (as you would think) and is still in use with my old PC, that my mother uses. I am curios If the non clicky keyboards that I used in the early 90s where also G80-3000 with a linear switch (blacks) or just G81s? I recall that the hardware shops at the time only said "Cherry keyboard with click" or "Cherry keyboard without click" in their lists. The keyboars without click where usually 10 DM (Deutsche Mark) cheaper than the "keyboards with click".

Did Cherry produce G80s with different switches at the time like they do today or were the non-clicky boards G81s?

Thanks, G80s were already available at that time. I hope I didn't waste them.