Humm, the answers are not really satisfying, too much marketing, dodging and guessing...
I'm disappointed, even though I knew we'd learn very little. The only question of mine that made it in, I don't believe the answer. I doubt that whoever answered those questions even knows or cares — these switches are over 30 years old! The ones I'm most interested in are the M6–M11, and the oldest of those are over 40 years old! Information on those is extremely scarce now.
A lot of the answers lie in contemporary product information: Cherry catalogues and brochures from the past 40 years or more. We just don't have most of these.
What's sad is that Cherry are so paranoid, that they reject any non-stock switch as "fake" — they won't recognise all their interesting specialist production runs as real. Sadly these won't be in any of the catalogues. I would love to know about the pale yellow and grey-green ones from the Xerox 1190:
http://deskthority.net/keyboards-f2/cherry-switches-t1939.html#p33646(When the page has loaded, click the address bar and press enter to force phpBB to actually go the correct post. The retards who programmed it don't understand that you can specify the size of an image before it loads.)
