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Title: What does Ivan have to say about this?
Post by: berserkfan on Wed, 19 November 2014, 12:21:37

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cherry-Programmable-Keypad-Vintage-B1T7-3201-18546-6005-000REVA-1306039-026-0979-/151124694963?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item232fbbd7b3

Title: Re: What does Ivan have to say about this?
Post by: jdcarpe on Wed, 19 November 2014, 12:28:34

Pretty cool, but not really useful. Dat price, tho. :eek:

Funny that someone repaired it with jumper wires.

Title: Re: What does Ivan have to say about this?
Post by: yicaoyimu on Wed, 19 November 2014, 12:55:33

It's interesting that it has "IL" on the PCB. That must be from the old days before Cherry moved to Germany?

Title: Re: What does Ivan have to say about this?
Post by: dorkvader on Wed, 19 November 2014, 13:34:56

looks like M6/M7 or whatever cherry was using back in the day.

These sort of thing are very common on eBay. Many companies switched to TG3 as the OEM and MX, and that version of these controllers is much more common

Title: Re: What does Ivan have to say about this?
Post by: Defect on Wed, 19 November 2014, 15:52:19

Those caps look awesome

Title: Re: What does Ivan have to say about this?
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Wed, 19 November 2014, 16:24:42

Yeah... looks like M7 switch, probably made sometime around 1980-1983. I think it's too expensive for what it is, but maybe interesting for collector. Cherry kept the Waukegan plant open through most of the 80's I believe. They seemed to have used it mostly later for more custom oriented products and 'weird' stuff.

Title: Re: What does Ivan have to say about this?
Post by: REVENGE on Wed, 19 November 2014, 22:08:44

I own (a variant of) this, produced by TG3 (design licensed from Cherry I presume). They were produced for various industrial applications (CNC control panels and such) through the mid 90s. A similar design lives on with MX switches (same layout, possibly interface compatible). Pictures of it are somewhere out there in the GH archives.

Title: Re: What does Ivan have to say about this?
Post by: 3Love on Tue, 25 November 2014, 17:29:03

Pretty cool, but really old product. No idea how useful about it. And the keycaps broken a lot.

Title: Re: What does Ivan have to say about this?
Post by: Lain1911 on Wed, 26 November 2014, 22:44:16

(http://www.goodguycomics.com/media/00/a20791e12dfdeea8f4f4cc_m.jpg)

Ivan has spoken.