I just pulled the switches off of a WYSE terminal board with a manufacture date of March 1996. I found three distinct logos on the switch housings.
Is the switch in Row 3 "vintage" or not? Anyone know?
On the Amiga example, the left is 'vintage' while the right has the later housing style.
Does anyone know the manufacture date of the Amiga 1000 Cherry G80-0777 keyboards?
Normal A1000 keyboards were all manufacutred in 1984-1986. Probably most of them were manufactured in 1985.
But the Cherry G80-0777 is nowhere close to a normal Amiga keyboard. It looks really weird and I never heard of it until a few days ago.
It is by far the rarest Amiga keyboard ever.
I am just wondering if they were made in the 80s or 90s or ?
I am also wondering who made them?
They look like "some guy threw them together in the garage one day using spare parts left over from other projects" :p
But the one on the left in the Amiga picture is like the one on my Row 1 it looks to me. It is also looks the same as the "newer" style photos I have found in previous threads. I would have said the one on the left is the newer style and the one on the right is vintage in precarious's photo. Is that what you meant to say?
But the one on the left in the Amiga picture is like the one on my Row 1 it looks to me. It is also looks the same as the "newer" style photos I have found in previous threads. I would have said the one on the left is the newer style and the one on the right is vintage in precarious's photo. Is that what you meant to say?
Nopenope.. look at the Amiga picture. Smaller font is on the left. Looks like the wrong cutout though, but I think that's angle. What's weird to me is that they're two very different housing types. My Wyse is entirely consistent across all switches. No variation at all. All with the tiny font.
The G80-0777 is not Amiga specific. It's AT and follows AT Set 2 scancodes. AT Set2, contrary to what you may have been told, actually supports 24 function keys. No, not as 5250 scancodes or such. As native Set2 scancode.
It's probably dirt. The switches on my Wyse are smooth as silk. Hell, they're smoother than a brand new MX Black. And please, please tell me that TO-300 keyboard is the DIN5 one, precarious. Because I desperately need photos of the PCB if it is so I can try to figure out what the hell Wyse U57 actually does without risking destroying it.
it was the 4p4c style cable, or at least a phone plug style one. i was thinking about replacing the controller on it, any thoughts?
On the Amiga example, the left is 'vintage'
Nopenope.. look at the Amiga picture. Smaller font is on the left.
The logo is ever so slightly bigger on the vintage switches.
So the 'vintage' black switches are the ones with smaller font?
So yes, Row 3 is vintage MX Black.
On the Amiga example, the left is 'vintage'
Nopenope.. look at the Amiga picture. Smaller font is on the left.
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Cherry started making the housing type in early 80's when they introduced the M8. I suppose they used those mold until they were no longer any good and made some new ones and made the logo smaller at that time and some 'refinements'. Same with the stems, there is some differences in blacks and even blues that I have noticed. Some have a notch in the stem mount other don't, other little things, and I believe there was some changes made in plastic composition at some points also which may contribute to some difference in feeling.
I would guess they just assembled switches with whatever parts they had on hand and there may be some mix of different part generations.