NIB Cherry G80-2100HBU

Jesseg · 30 Jul 2020, 07:18

Hello,
This is my first post in the gallery section of the forum!
I recently acquired a new-in-box Cherry G80-2100HBU so I thought I would share some photos of it.
As far as I know, this is the only G80-2100HBU known, or at least I have never seen another one.
Honestly I didn't even want to remove it from the box but I had to have a closer look and give it a quick test.
Denoted by the code 'HBU', This keyboard has double-shot keycaps, MX Black switches and is US layout.

It came from an office liquidation and had apparently been sitting on top of a cabinet since the early 1990s and had never been used.
I was also really happy to find the original documentation inside.
This keyboard comes from Cherry's range of 'battleship' keyboards consisting of the G80-2000, G80-2100 and the G80-2550 among other regional specific layouts.

As mentioned previously, this one uses vintage Blacks, which in this case are incredibly smooth, definitely one of my favorite stock switches. It has a big enter and a single unit backspace among other special keys like the windowed 'Cherry' key, that is used for programming.
The programming of this keyboards consists of 23 re-legendable macro keys * 10 layers and functions for repeat rate. Neat!

Overall I really like this keyboard and if it wasn't for preservation sake, I'd probably use it every day. Enjoy the photos!

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Damonskv · 30 Jul 2020, 07:47

Congratulations again, man. I hope one day you will want to get rid of this

kbdfr · 30 Jul 2020, 08:19

Congratulations, and thanks for sharing.

I actually own (or owned, would have to check after 9 years

) a Cherry G80-2100 HDU featured here,
but yours is the even rarer, older model with the Cherry key still in the programming cluster.

And it looks simply great

Jesseg · 30 Jul 2020, 08:24

kbdfr wrote: 30 Jul 2020, 08:19 Congratulations, and thanks for sharing.

I actually own (or owned, would have to check after 9 years ) a Cherry G80-2100 HDU featured here,
but yours is the even rarer, older model with the Cherry key still in the programming cluster.

And it looks simply great

Thanks for the comment!
Just had a look at your thread, You had THREE 2100's!? Jaysus.. Keep them safe lol

Jesseg · 30 Jul 2020, 08:26

Damonskv wrote: 30 Jul 2020, 07:47 Congratulations again, man. I hope one day you will want to get rid of this

Perhaps, not for quite some time though haha, do you really need another Cherry battleship?

Damonskv · 30 Jul 2020, 08:59

Of course, yes!!!

t8c · 30 Jul 2020, 14:18

A stunning find. Congrats, so nice of you to share it with us.

photekq · 30 Jul 2020, 22:00

This is such an incredible find, I really can't congratulate you enough. One of the absolute nicest possible 2100s, and NIB to boot. I used to have (actual) dreams of finding stacks of these in 2015, sadly they never came true

Cherish that thing for as long as you have it (I'd keep it forever if I were you

)!

Also, just in case you haven't realised: this is the first ever photographed example of this particular 2100 model with all original caps in-tact, unless previous records got deleted at some point. And I'm including the ancient Korean forums. You've made Cherry history with this.

ddrfraser1 · 30 Jul 2020, 23:14

Dayum! Been trying to find one with an led screen for a while. Congrats!

Jesseg · 31 Jul 2020, 01:27

Thanks for your kind comments! It's nice to have somewhere to share this and It's great to be a part of the history of these things!