Interesting find: blue Olivetti dyesubs

[chyros]

Ran into a fun little thing today, an Olivetti G81-3000 with the fabled thick Cherry dyesubs, except the legends on these are bright blue. The lock light sticker is blue too, and the case appears to be light grey rather than beige — a bit like the Olivetti rubber dome board I scored ages ago.

These are my first Cherry dyesubs, I hadn't found any before these. Interesting find I think. The switches are those vintage MYs that I reviewed a while ago. As I've already done a review on a board like this I figured I might as well make a loose post rather than a whole review .

Pictures:

[Brot]

Wow

[Hypersphere]

Nice find!

[Photekq]

Nice find. It's very rare to see an Olivetti with Cherry dyesubs. Most of the ones with dyesubs have odd, Cherry profile ones but with stabilisers that aren't compatible with MX.

I used to own one of these in ANSI and, while it was lovely, I still prefer regular black on beige dyesubs

Shame about those missing keys

[thebeae]

Im quite jealous, really nice find.

[Screwdriver]

Nice!

[chyros]

I'll probably be selling/trading these in a while btw, just cleaning them atm. I'm doing >80 hours of work per week atm though, so it's taking a while xD .

[kekman]

i have a soft fetish for olivetti boards...