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Show the goods 8)
But showing boxes is more fun! :P
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Btw, is there a good story with this one? Or did you get it from another collector? Either way, it's amazing. I was in the Brighton Beach area of NYC last month (big Russian community) and I stopped by a few used computer parts places just to see what they might have laying around. Only found some cyrillic stickers
Most Cyrillic Cherry boards are probably lost in depth of former USSR.
Story telling time. This was originally found by me, along with someone's Russian boards, from a ex-cherry RUS employee. He got quite a lot of goodies, which includes, G80-5000HAMRB x2, G80-3000HPMRB, G81-8904HPBRB, G80-2100HAV, etc. BroCaps wanted one ANSI 5000 for so long and someone, yeah I mean someone, offered a bad trade to him. That guy wanted to trade his G80-5000HAMRB for BroCaps' 360 Corsa. However, this wasn't really related to me until that guy said something , like '
yeah good luck with tin and any 5000 for under $500' "that guy" 2014. Wow, shameless! (That guy paid $300+shipping for his 5000, just FYI.) What he said really pissed me off and I decided to get the last one for BroCaps.
P.S. Sometimes some people like to compete with others, and think other people like to compete, too. However, no one gives a damn.
Most Cyrillic Cherry boards are probably lost in depth of former USSR.
Actually no, we can see the production figures. Except G813000SAV, others production number is quite low. Let's look at the pictures.
G81-3000SAV, pic by mintberryminuscrunch, found in Germany, Serial NO. 21930

G80-3000HAV, pic by unknown, found on ebay.de like half decade ago, Serial NO. 170

G80-3209 SAR, this one is really rare, ISO-DE/cyrillic layout, found by sixty on ebay.de in 2011. Seller was a
girl, mmm and sold 3 of them, the last one gone for €100 plus. Serial NO. 1514

G80-3000SEARB, pic by mbrodov, found on ebay.de, Serial NO. 00104

G80-5000 HAMRB, pic by ?, purchased in Russia originally, serial NO. XXX, 3 figures


G80-3000 HPMRB, owned by tinlong117, serial no. 535
Now, we can almost conclude that most of the early Cherry Cyrillic keyboards were found in ebay.de/Germany. Moreover, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, etc were really poor in the 90's and most people cannot afford computer. So, those Cyrillic keyboards are rare nowadays.
P.S. Still remember those ESA-3000-HASRO that being sold on Dec 2012? They were found in Germany, too!