Lest I be not thought guilty for waking this topic, even at later date. However, strikes as somewhat pretentious to open a new topic, being a greenhorn of barely a few minutes, on this great forum of yours.
Although my typing pleasure remains with model M and mechanical bliss at heart; always shared my admiration for Cherry keyboards, and no year (dare I say, since early 80's) would pass without buying or extensively trying Cherry's latest.
The very reason for this post is to mention a very special edition - edition sadly no more - that escapes even the most informed Cherry users and admirers. Somewhere 2004/2005, Cheery devised a scheme to uplift, again (anyone remembers
Colani Welcome keyboard from 91/93?) some luxury in the desktop keyboard range.
They chose Solar Master for such purpose and, well, they offered a selection of unseen range of motives. I've managed to save some catalogues I've took in Germany and some of the promo materials. For life of me, I've often tried to find some data on "edition" range, but, not even a single reference awaits such query
So I've decided to dedicate one page, to make sure they are not forgotten in the realms of binary :
Cherry CyMotion Master Solar (M86-21950) & Limited EditionsThis was a rather limited offer that ended quite prematurely for my liking, also, for some authenticity that resides less often in domain of generic approach to design essence within IT industry. I've once managed to speak with a person from Cherry who was quite familiar with LE, but even he couldn’t precise for how many months was this series actually available. I've purchased my
HB edition, I believe in 2004.
The main trigger for my purchase was no more noble then fascination with design and shape. Quite frankly, I hated a membrane affair and every slip from my M keys, would confirm disappointment.
So I’ve made a terrible mistake and returned this keyboard. A few years later, the noise of M and bulky nature of them all, well, I decided to use them only when stroke would employ heavy input on daily basis. So I’ve looked for my Cheery replacement, and although I had many Cheery keyboard in my boxes, something was pushing me for Solar again.
Took me a few days to grasp that LE is no more, and the prospect of finding the same is bordering with impossible. Took the next best thing, regular Solar if you will and remained my favorite keyboard for desktop affairs. I love side programmable keys and Keyman combined, took me some time to absorb tactile dullness that appears with initial surface experience, and now feel really conformable with Solar.
Oh yes, the mouse, although designed with finer lineage of Cherry approach, sings no praise to function and follows nothing but form. Had they decided to sale Solar alone, perhaps would grant a few points more for general acceptance. Being a trackball user, never really cared for this anyway.
Well thanks for your attention and reading. I thought this keyboard should be more known and wanted to share my thoughts with Geekhack.
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