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Title: Cherry MY: If I'm going to try it what are some of the better quality keyboards?
Post by: dante on Sun, 26 May 2013, 19:00:06

I'm going to give Cherry MY a try.  If I'm going to do that I want to try them in a nice quality standard ANSI layout board.

Can I hear a shout out to some models/years I should try?

Title: Re: Cherry MY: If I'm going to try it what are some of the better quality keyboards?
Post by: jabar on Sun, 26 May 2013, 19:09:42

um

the real question is, what keyboards come with MY that aren't Cherry G81 keyboards.

Title: Re: Cherry MY: If I'm going to try it what are some of the better quality keyboards?
Post by: Masterchief79 on Sun, 26 May 2013, 19:32:26

... are there some at all? There's the G81-3000 of course, a G81-7908 but that one should be rather rare... Else, the only thing I know about is an electronical typewriter named "Triumph Adler Gabriele 7007L" (in fact, all models from the 7007 series should have MY with blue Cherry Dyesub caps - that's the first reason why there are interesting in my opinion ;))
As far as I know, MY hasn't been adapted by other manufacturers (by that I mean, you won't find something like a Filco Majestouch MY edition or something).

Title: Re: Cherry MY: If I'm going to try it what are some of the better quality keyboards?
Post by: dante on Sun, 26 May 2013, 20:03:18

Do all the G81-3000's use a steel plate?  If not, do you know which year they switched over?

Title: Re: Cherry MY: If I'm going to try it what are some of the better quality keyboards?
Post by: davkol on Sun, 26 May 2013, 23:18:26

For the record, different generations use different stabilizers. I believe it's explained at Deskthority wiki.

Title: Re: Cherry MY: If I'm going to try it what are some of the better quality keyboards?
Post by: therecorder on Mon, 27 May 2013, 00:45:02

Possibility...  Last photo is a closeup of the back info:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cherry-D-91275-PS-2-Keyboard-G81-3000LPDUS-00-/271156209116

Title: Re: Cherry MY: If I'm going to try it what are some of the better quality keyboards?
Post by: therecorder on Mon, 27 May 2013, 00:51:11

Another possibility:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cherry-MY7000-G81-7000LPCUS-07-White-PS-2-POS-Keyboard-TESTED-/150697380046

Title: Re: Cherry MY: If I'm going to try it what are some of the better quality keyboards?
Post by: Peter on Mon, 27 May 2013, 09:19:53

You will be wanting one with the old plate-mounted black MY's :

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(vintage plate-mounted black MY-switches)
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(Those are metal-rivets !)
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(Double-shot key-caps !)
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Don't rely to much on the label for identifying key-caps,
I've seen 'H'-labeled boards with dye-subs !!

If you are lucky you may find a 'NCR'-branded board with an industrial-gray case :)