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Offline Kevadu

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1959 Cherry Switch
« on: Sat, 03 March 2018, 22:50:16 »
This is super neat so I thought I would share.

The mechanism it uses is pretty interesting too.  Though I guess switches on a rotating arm wouldn't be great for keyboards...
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Offline chyros

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Re: 1959 Cherry Switch
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 04 March 2018, 03:03:54 »
It's a Cherry mousetrap switch. HaaTa did some coverage of them a long time ago. Lots of fun to toy around with.
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Offline captsis

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Re: 1959 Cherry Switch
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 04 March 2018, 03:39:55 »
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Offline Daniel Beardsmore

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Re: 1959 Cherry Switch
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 04 March 2018, 07:40:11 »
Switch: Cherry miniature open

Computer Communications 303 is a keyboard with mousetrap switches, but the manufacturer of the switches is not known.
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Offline noSatellite

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Re: 1959 Cherry Switch
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 04 March 2018, 08:27:59 »
That is very cool - thanks for sharing!
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Offline buckyballs

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Re: 1959 Cherry Switch
« Reply #5 on: Wed, 07 March 2018, 06:18:55 »
It would be so cool if someone could make an entire typewriter-like keyboard with these switches.
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Offline Riverman

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Re: 1959 Cherry Switch
« Reply #6 on: Wed, 07 March 2018, 16:29:16 »
My dad has piles of old Cherry microswitches that GTE used to use in telephone switching equipment back in the '60s and '70s.  That was back when Cherry was an American company, before they moved to Germany and started making keyboards.
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Offline Daniel Beardsmore

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Re: 1959 Cherry Switch
« Reply #7 on: Wed, 07 March 2018, 16:33:14 »
Cherry gold crosspoint keyboard switches (later Serie M7) go back to 1969–1970. Cherry keyboards were made in Waukegan IL at one stage. The move to Germany came later, to save money if I remember correctly, and there was some overlap in production it seems, with 80s keyboards being made in both Illinois and Germany.

See Cherry catalogues for a lot of details.
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Re: 1959 Cherry Switch
« Reply #8 on: Sat, 10 March 2018, 03:51:23 »



An earlier prototype.
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