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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: HungerMechanic on Fri, 17 September 2021, 17:26:22
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Those old Cherry boards have their fans, and the G80-3000 has inspired a number of modern kits.
One of them, of course, is the fabulous JER-A06, which hasn't GBed recently:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=101401.0
(https://geekhack.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=101401.0;attach=221923;image)
and another is the new NCR80 / NCR-80, a new budget-kit:
These are pretty neat! What are your feelings on them as modern keyboards, and how they compare to the old Cherry ones?
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I love old boards and new ones that mimick old ones. Because they were designed in an era designed to last and weren't all disposable cheap plastic, they usually all have a nice unique look/feel to them. Especially when lots of these boards have funky layouts.
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Although, some might say that the hollow, plateless Cherry boards were an exception to that rule.
People have said that the G80-style boards felt/sounded like cardboard boxes. I'm not sure how durable they really were - they weren't exactly built like Hall Effect keyboards.
But I see people taking them out of drawers from ancient server centers, and they still work.
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That is true, although I still would take them any day over a $5 membrane or razer
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I'd love to see an old Cherry G80 some time. I have a new G80-3000, and even though it's very lightweight and can be flexed pretty easily, it's extremely nice to type on. The PCB-mounted switches feel lighter than the same ones on a plate-mounted keyboard.
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Hmmm. Those Ergo-Clears I had. Maybe I should have mounted them on something like a G80 instead of a Leopold.
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The one thing that's kept me from modding my G80 is that every switch has a diode soldered through it. 416 solder joints has always seemed like a lot to desolder. I don't think the older ones without n-key rollover have the in-switch diodes.