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Title: Can someone help me Identify this board?
Post by: Capitalistix on Tue, 09 June 2020, 12:27:10

Seems to be some type of vintage XT layout board? I never knew cherrys were used back in the XT days.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Cherry-Mechanical-Keyboard-Vintage-Tested-Works/283857405353?hash=item42173845a9:g:KSkAAOSw8~5eolWX

Title: Re: Can someone help me Identify this board?
Post by: Maledicted on Thu, 11 June 2020, 14:39:25

Quote from: Capitalistix on Tue, 09 June 2020, 12:27:10

Seems to be some type of vintage XT layout board? I never knew cherrys were used back in the XT days.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Cherry-Mechanical-Keyboard-Vintage-Tested-Works/283857405353?hash=item42173845a9:g:KSkAAOSw8~5eolWX

Probably the same as in this recent thread:

Help: Identifying keyboard (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=106844.0)

It does follow the general XT pattern, with a slight change to the number pad. Cherry has been in the keyboard game practically forever. The first MX switches apparently came out way back in 1983, and the X in MX means 10, so there were 9 previous iterations.