My next question is this - how does one clean the keys, now that they have been removed from the keyboard? Can I wash them? If so, can I use any sort of antibacterial products, or do I risk removing the markings?Put them in the dishwasher, cutlery basket. Close the compartment with something so the keys are not blown out by the water and land on the heating. I use 50 degrees Celsius. You can put the case and cable in too but may have to protect the sticker.
My next question is this - how does one clean the keys, now that they have been removed from the keyboard? Can I wash them? If so, can I use any sort of antibacterial products, or do I risk removing the markings?
In the past, I have also used Simple Green to keyboards/parts. I would soak the parts in a bucket of Simple Green overnight and wipe them down the next morning.
Put them in the dishwasher, cutlery basket. Close the compartment with something so the keys are not blown out by the water and land on the heating. I use 50 degrees Celsius. You can put the case and cable in too but may have to protect the sticker.
The markings are a separate part of plastic, these are double injection keycaps. No way to remove the symbols without completely destroying the keycap.
What a surprise!!!
Didn't imagine that 3000HSMGB exist. would like to try those thick key caps!
I'm not sure what Simple Green is, but it sounds like what I do - a bucket of warm water and washing up liquid, stir them around a bit and let them soak for a while. Cleans even the grimy-est of keys.
I've jsut noticed that the Windows keys & the right-click-menu key aren't the 'dual-shot' style (the Windows keys I can understand, as they were a later addition to the layout, but the right-click one is a bit strange).Right-click menu key and Windows keys came at the same time.
And finally a G80-3000LPNGB/01 with regular key caps & what I think must be MX1A-C non-clicky switches? Here's a photo of them.
That looks like a G81. Is it LPNGB or LPMGB?
What kind of plug does it have? DIN?
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1989 G80-1xxxHAD
Looks like dye sublimation if you ask me. Should pop off a keycap to check.Show Image(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=3015&stc=1&d=1246618077)
1992 G81-3079SAD
Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe this is dye sublimation? Might explain the fuzziness.
Could you pop the first key and check it?
You live in the U.S.??
I'm definately keeping the first one, not sure what I'm going to do with the others yet. The G81 doesn't seem too special so I might dump that back on the pile, not sure about the others yet.
If the G81 is completely functional
I suppose the first thing to do would be to ascertain the functionality of them all before deciding their futures... That'll be my next port of call.
Do you Cherry Keyboard guys know if the key spacing matches the IBMs Model M's?
May be able to do Cherry to Filco key swaps then. It's gonna come up when Majestouch starts shipping the blank key sets. Dunno if the angle geometry matches but both look like flat mounted switches so it should.
Usually, space bar length and levelling attachment points are the problems here.
I'd have to have a close look at a 2003 vintage board, which apparently was when they changed to the Vista-style Windows logo.
They started to use the round bump logo back in 2003? I thought that was a recent change.
Well, me too, which in fact is why I was puzzled by the more recent Cherry Germany date-related serial number suffix. @work there's a board made 1P50 or so (which would translate to 2003, week 50, day 1) which has the "wavy" Windows logo already, and the early 2004 Czech-made G80 I'm typing on right now also has it.
Seems like the round bump logo is a newer thing though. I just didn't know that there also was a flat wavy logo before... must have been XP style then.
With the introduction of a new Microsoft Windows logo, first used with Windows XP, the agreement was updated to require that the new design be adopted for all keyboards manufactured after September 1, 2003.[3] However, with the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft published guidelines for a new Windows Logo key that incorporates the Windows logo recessed in a lowered circle with a contrast ratio of at least 3:1 with respect to background that the key is applied to.