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Data General PC & Cherry G80-0566, Local only (MA)
« on: Sat, 14 March 2015, 23:02:44 »
This might be a really cool pickup for someone in Massachusetts.  If I was on the East Coast, I'd probably try and snag it.  It's either doubleshots with pad printing or dyesubs. Whatever it is, you get some OG Cherry windowed caps.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Data-General-Dasher-One-PC-boots-DOS-w-Cherry-Clicky-Keyboard-/301563108721?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item46368fdd71
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Re: Data General PC & Cherry G80-0566, Local only (MA)
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 14 March 2015, 23:07:18 »
Awesome find man, never seen those boards before!
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Re: Data General PC & Cherry G80-0566, Local only (MA)
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 15 March 2015, 11:44:17 »
Seller won't separate keyboard, and won't ship. Just FYI so you don't waste your time. If they would have, I assure you I would have taken it already. Been looking for one of those for awhile.
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« Reply #3 on: Mon, 16 March 2015, 08:57:38 »
Wow, that numpad is really pretty!
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Re: Data General PC & Cherry G80-0566, Local only (MA)
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 17 March 2015, 00:18:57 »
seems the seller sold the keyboard separately
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« Reply #5 on: Tue, 17 March 2015, 00:21:56 »
I guess they did.  Did you get it Ivan?
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« Reply #6 on: Tue, 17 March 2015, 09:36:21 »
Not exactly. I was contacted by the person that did though who is offering to pass it on to me at the ending cost.
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Re: Data General PC & Cherry G80-0566, Local only (MA)
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 17 March 2015, 09:53:58 »
Quote from: IvanIvanovich on Tue, 17 March 2015, 09:36:21
Not exactly. I was contacted by the person that did though who is offering to pass it on to me at the ending cost.

Well, if you do take that, you'll have to let us know the details about the board.
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« Reply #8 on: Tue, 17 March 2015, 22:03:36 »
I got it.

I was browsing last night and saw it had popped up with a BIN price and figured that if I didn't grab it then, it would end up in the hands of a European (not that there's anything wrong with them ;) ).  Ivan had said he had been looking for one of these for a while, so I felt I should to offer it to him first.
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« Reply #9 on: Tue, 17 March 2015, 22:09:18 »
If he didn't, I would have.  The only reason I didn't snag it when it came up was the pickup only.  Definitely going to need pics and details from Ivan or you when it arrives.
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Re: Data General PC & Cherry G80-0566, Local only (MA)
« Reply #10 on: Tue, 17 March 2015, 22:11:28 »
Quote from: nubbinator on Tue, 17 March 2015, 22:09:18
If he didn't, I would have.  The only reason I didn't snag it when it came up was the pickup only.  Definitely going to need pics and details from Ivan or you when it arrives.

Luckily, when he put the keyboard up by itself, he was willing to ship.
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Re: Data General PC & Cherry G80-0566, Local only (MA)
« Reply #11 on: Wed, 25 March 2015, 13:42:35 »
Since I don't have a decent camera handy, I will just be brief here for now and go into more detail later.
So a few surprises... we have a platemounted board with vintage clicky clears/white and diodes for nkro. Sadly this board must have seen a great deal of use and the clicky tactility is all but disappeared. That is a real shame since I quite like the feeling of what these switches are supposed to feel like.
The numpad is the most surprising. Since it has 2 colors I was expecting a doubleshot/pad print... but I expected the numbers to be doubleshot and the nav legends to be pad printed as has been the case on other similar arrangements like on the 2551 for example... here it is the reverse where the numbers are pad printed and the doubleshot legends are ins, del, arrows etc. which is quite odd.
It's keycap colorway is much darker tones of beige/tan than any other boards I have seen before. It makes the darker tones on even my Commodore seem very light in comparison.
Overall it's in fair cosmetic shape with only a few small issues. Functionally it is going to need some TLC, as especially the enter key has a very bad sticking problem. Popping it open it has the wire colors that Cherry typically used to AT and PS/2 so heres to hoping it is. If it speaks AT I will be much more inclined to restore it. I'll have to do some digging around to find my AT to PS/2 adapter before I will be able to check.
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