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Title: Interesting find: blue Olivetti dyesubs
Post by: chyros on Sun, 17 July 2016, 11:33:06

Ran into a fun little thing today, an Olivetti G81-3000 with the fabled thick Cherry dyesubs, except the legends on these are bright blue. The lock light sticker is blue too, and the case appears to be light grey rather than beige — a bit like the Olivetti rubber dome board I scored ages ago.

These are my first Cherry dyesubs, I hadn't found any before these. Interesting find I think. The switches are those vintage MYs that I reviewed a while ago. As I've already done a review on a board like this I figured I might as well make a loose post rather than a whole review :) .

Pictures:

(http://imgur.com/uuokmMW.jpg)

(http://imgur.com/eRwir3D.jpg)

(http://imgur.com/eLwT4eL.jpg)

Title: Re: Interesting find: blue Olivetti dyesubs
Post by: Brot on Sun, 17 July 2016, 14:06:14

Wow

Title: Re: Interesting find: blue Olivetti dyesubs
Post by: Hypersphere on Sun, 17 July 2016, 14:12:53

Nice find!

Title: Re: Interesting find: blue Olivetti dyesubs
Post by: Photekq on Sun, 17 July 2016, 14:28:50

Nice find. It's very rare to see an Olivetti with Cherry dyesubs. Most of the ones with dyesubs have odd, Cherry profile ones but with stabilisers that aren't compatible with MX.

I used to own one of these in ANSI and, while it was lovely, I still prefer regular black on beige dyesubs ;D

Shame about those missing keys :'(

Title: Re: Interesting find: blue Olivetti dyesubs
Post by: thebeae on Sun, 24 July 2016, 10:47:20

Im quite jealous, really nice find.

Title: Re: Interesting find: blue Olivetti dyesubs
Post by: Screwdriver on Tue, 26 July 2016, 18:03:18

Nice!

Title: Re: Interesting find: blue Olivetti dyesubs
Post by: chyros on Tue, 26 July 2016, 18:07:24

I'll probably be selling/trading these in a while btw, just cleaning them atm. I'm doing >80 hours of work per week atm though, so it's taking a while xD .

Title: Re: Interesting find: blue Olivetti dyesubs
Post by: kekman on Tue, 26 July 2016, 20:33:05

i have a soft fetish for olivetti boards...