Old Cherry info/prices

[photekq]

User aussiegeek had some old 95/96 catalogues from PC wholesalers. He was kind enough to scan the pages with Cherry keyboards for me. There's some good info there, and it gives an idea of how much these boards cost. Although, they would've been cheaper in US/EU than in Australia probably.

I've uploaded PDFs + the raw images here :

http://deskthority.net/wiki/Special:Con ... ns/Photekq

[Muirium]

Thanks.

Looking at the front cover, it suddenly occurs to me: did Cherry ever make a TKL? They're a big black hole in my knowledge, so this could be a dumb question…

[photekq]

Thanks.

Looking at the front cover, it suddenly occurs to me: did Cherry ever make a TKL? They're a big black hole in my knowledge, so this could be a dumb question…

G80-5000 is closest they came to a TKL. Such a nice board. Photo from webwit

[Muirium]

Ah, of course. The one I already know I want and can't afford! Pretty remarkable they didn't also do a plain SSK copy (for want of a polite and more acurate word, they're hardly clones). Every other IBM format caught their eye but the best one…

[Compgeke]

The OEM Cherry ML boards are technically TKL but that's about all I can think of off the top of my head that isn't a 5000.

[IvanIvanovich]

Yeah 5000 is most closest to 'proper' TKL layout that I'm aware of, though there are some others as well which could be considered as such like those Blaupunkt model. I didn't think they ever made 60% either until I found one.

[Muirium]

The OEM Cherry ML boards are technically TKL but that's about all I can think of off the top of my head that isn't a 5000.

You mean like the G84(?) on the front cover?

[Daniel Beardsmore]

That's not a TKL, that's closer to a 60%.

I don't think I've ever seen a Cherry TKL. The G84-5200 is the opposite — it has a numeric keypad instead of the navigation cluster.

[Hak Foo]

Makes me wonder when Windows keys first came into vogue. Since a lot of the offerings, even then, were POS and business applications, they might have been comparatively late to the party, but I'm pretty sure that the 104 layout was already showing up on rubberdomes by 1996.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

It was designed for Windows 95 (released in August 1995) but introduced ready for it in 1994:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_logo_key

The earliest FCC ID for the AT101W/102W is GYUM92SK, registered in 1995.