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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Surly73 on Sun, 13 March 2011, 08:07:27
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I was wondering if there's something out there that my googles have overlooked. I'd like to know if there is any good source for Cherry option string decoders?
For instance, G84-4101SPAUS - I'd like to decode the SPAUS. Beyond that, I'd like to better understand what all of the options are. So it would have to be a site indicating that the "S" could be S,T,H,Q,G and what each one means. (letters picked at random).
Whenever I'm researching these things I sometimes end up at Cherry product pages but they only list a subset of the boards they make (as evidenced when I find a board with option strings they claim not to make). Then I often end up with hits to ebay auctions where I need to try to figure out from the sellers description how it differs from other G84-4101s (again, just an example).
I know that language, presence of windows keys, key print technology and lots of other things are encoded into those letters and when looking around I'd like to understand them better.
Anything?
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IBM recently tried to program Watson to decode cherry product codes...
(http://triangulations.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/mushroom-cloud.jpg)
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There is a wiki about that, but it's mostly for g80 boards: Dating Cherry keyboards. (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Dating+Cherry+keyboards)
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Looking at the G84-4100 variants listed on the Cherry website, I'd say it's
S: Dye sub lettering - special order (usual options: L = lasered, P = pad-printed)
P: PS/2-only (rather than C = USB / PS/2 combo)
A: 83-key (M = 86-key)
US: US layout
A little different from the G80 scheme, but at least this one is quite easy to grasp.
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What keyb_gr said.