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Title: Vintage cherry POS with white doubleshots and clear switches
Post by: AMoody on Thu, 29 September 2011, 22:54:43

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-CHERRY-KEYBOARD-G80-3190HAU-01-CHERRY-SLIDERS-Programmable-Card-Swipe-/290611097762?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item43a9c570a2


Found this on ebay- rare board.

Title: Vintage cherry POS with white doubleshots and clear switches
Post by: BiNiaRiS on Fri, 30 September 2011, 00:45:58

It's been up for almost 2 weeks now.

Most of the caps aren't doubleshots which is a downer, but that sexy Caps Lock key might be worth the purchase for someone. It's too bad the Enter key is ISO.

Title: Vintage cherry POS with white doubleshots and clear switches
Post by: EverythingIBM on Fri, 30 September 2011, 01:02:29

Quote from: BiNiaRiS;423869

It's been up for almost 2 weeks now.

Most of the caps aren't doubleshots which is a downer, but that sexy Caps Lock key might be worth the purchase for someone. It's too bad the Enter key is ISO.

You're going to make the ISO minority sad!

Title: Vintage cherry POS with white doubleshots and clear switches
Post by: N8N on Fri, 30 September 2011, 07:44:28

Meh?  Auction says G80 but that is clearly not a MX clear but a MY switch!  what gives?

Title: Vintage cherry POS with white doubleshots and clear switches
Post by: AMoody on Fri, 30 September 2011, 08:04:13

yeah- strange. Even the information on the back of the board says g80


Edit:
Upon closer inspection that photo showing the MY switch is not of this keyboard.  The f keys don't look like that on POS boards .

Title: Vintage cherry POS with white doubleshots and clear switches
Post by: N8N on Fri, 30 September 2011, 09:06:01

Ah, good catch.  A little misleading though, I could see someone buying that board to harvest the caps and then being disappointed when the F-keys turned out to be relegendables and not doubleshots.

Probably best not to buy that to harvest - looks like the same layout as my G80-8200 which has many little things that don't make it a good cap donor (ISO enter, no secondary legends on numpad, nonstandard numpad key layout, relegendables used for nav block, arrows, and f-keys, etc.)

Title: Vintage cherry POS with white doubleshots and clear switches
Post by: theferenc on Fri, 30 September 2011, 14:03:22

That's incredibly uncool of him to do. And I think it violates ebay TOS, to use a picture from a totally different item as if it was of this item.

I would report him, honestly.

Title: Vintage cherry POS with white doubleshots and clear switches
Post by: N8N on Fri, 30 September 2011, 14:10:40

I'm conflicted...  on one hand, I'm thinking that he's not a keyboard geek and just put a representative pic of a beige doubleshot in the auction.  A mistake, but one that most people wouldn't even care about.

Then again, someone who knows the difference between lasered and doubleshot ought to know that someone like YT would want all doubleshots...

Title: Vintage cherry POS with white doubleshots and clear switches
Post by: HoboBob on Fri, 30 September 2011, 14:26:56

It is weird... Usually Ncbound knows what he's talking about, usually...

I have a similar board with doubleshot, but with an actual key in the top-right corner and it uses cherry clear and not MY style switches. Mine is a G80-3191.

Title: Vintage cherry POS with white doubleshots and clear switches
Post by: AMoody on Fri, 30 September 2011, 16:59:17

I think this board has doubleshots- just not for any of the relegendable keys.

Title: Vintage cherry POS with white doubleshots and clear switches
Post by: Ink`Eyes on Fri, 30 September 2011, 19:15:07

MY switch is for a very particular person.  They make my figures sore to type on them.

Title: Vintage cherry POS with white doubleshots and clear switches
Post by: N8N on Fri, 30 September 2011, 19:56:40

Quote from: AMoody;424279

I think this board has doubleshots- just not for any of the relegendable keys.

Agreed.  I don't doubt that the alphanumerics are doubleshot.

Quote from: ripster;424293

It's the product code that's ****ed.

Also agreed - which is why I'd want to see a pic of a stem that actually belongs to that board before paying $50 for it.  If I'm expecting clears, I want clears dammit.