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Title: russian keyboards
Post by: poopmat on Fri, 22 March 2013, 05:14:20: found this lurking on ebay
dont know any of this stuff but it looked pretty cool
http://www.ebay.com/sch/Keyboards-Mice-Pointing-/3676/i.html?item=170994744853&pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item27d014be15&_ssn=kespanokk
Title: Re: russian keyboards
Post by: poxeclipse on Fri, 22 March 2013, 05:52:45: They seem to be Bulgarian, actually.
Title: Re: russian keyboards
Post by: gunnish on Fri, 22 March 2013, 07:53:48: Would be good to know what switches they use.
Title: Re: russian keyboards
Post by: Tarzan on Fri, 22 March 2013, 09:16:42: Quote from: gunnish on Fri, 22 March 2013, 07:53:48
Would be good to know what switches they use.

Almost looks like a Cherry stem, but $120 plus shipping is above my budget for random keycap buys. :-)

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Looking into it a bit further, these appear to be Fujitsu switches:

http://www7.ocn.ne.jp/~hisao/image/N860-9201.htm

Or maybe not. Hard to tell looking at various pages of pictures, trying to match one specific piece of plastic to another. :-)

http://www7.ocn.ne.jp/~hisao/jiku.htm
Title: Re: russian keyboards
Post by: dorkvader on Fri, 22 March 2013, 09:35:07: this keyboard (same seller) has cherry switches (I'm pretty sure). They appear to be an early verison of the M7
http://www.ebay.com/itm/181097622688?

This one has the same layout as same WYSE/LINK terminal 'boards, but look out! It's domes
http://www.ebay.com/itm/171003358720?

Too bad IBM m2 keycaps aren't compatible: this one has dyesub russion sublegends. Excellent find for someone who has a working M2 (or who likes M2's)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/170988832955?
Title: Re: russian keyboards
Post by: Tarzan on Fri, 22 March 2013, 10:00:38: Quote from: dorkvader on Fri, 22 March 2013, 09:35:07
this keyboard (same seller) has cherry switches (I'm pretty sure). They appear to be an early verison of the M7
http://www.ebay.com/itm/181097622688?

This one has the same layout as same WYSE/LINK terminal 'boards, but look out! It's domes
http://www.ebay.com/itm/171003358720?

Too bad IBM m2 keycaps aren't compatible: this one has dyesub russion sublegends. Excellent find for someone who has a working M2 (or who likes M2's)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/170988832955?

That first one looks like a Mitsumi clone of some sort, not sure if the keycaps are compatible with Cherry or not.

You've definitely found some fascinating vintage boards!
Title: Re: russian keyboards
Post by: dorkvader on Fri, 22 March 2013, 11:17:17: Keycaps of the first one will not be compatible with cherry MX. It looks like those M7 precursors. You can look at a very similar one in that cherry groupshot on DT (picture #3 on the topright between the MY and the M7) but the top piece is a different colour.
http://deskthority.net/photos-videos-f8/cherry-switch-t5405.html
Title: Re: russian keyboards
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Fri, 22 March 2013, 11:41:41: Yeah this Bulgarian person had a lot of interesting vintage computing equipment. They had a G80-0531(HAG) go for 1.50EUR a few days back.

That IZOT is not Cherry. Look close there is Cyrillic marking on the switch top (in latin) "IZOT 0125D".