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Just scored this great board for 35$ here in Norway: In original packaging Double shot magic Real norwegian layout - without swedish / danish garbage Switch F and J keys are sculpted, here J next to H Original packaging Could anyone help with identifying exact production date?

hope you like it

Wow nice, very good price you got on that HAN...
Cherry date codes:

wiki/Cherry_date_codes

Nice find! See wiki/Cherry_date_codes for dates.

Amazing find. I've never seen a NIB Norwegian Cherry before!

Of course that's really just a danish keyboard, albeit that some tobacco chewing mountain hiking Tesla driving Norwegian seems to have swapped a couple of keycaps around XD

ugh why does I have to say this but yeah Cherry does make the best doubleshot ever

bocahgundul wrote: ugh why does I have to say this but yeah Cherry does make the best doubleshot ever

I do think that Cherry has very nice quality double shots, but being an devout Alps guy, I have to say that I prefer Alps Electric double shots.

There are some very convincing look-alike caps for certain Alps boards that look just like OG Cherry DS though.

E3E wrote:

bocahgundul wrote: ugh why does I have to say this but yeah Cherry does make the best doubleshot ever

I do think that Cherry has very nice quality double shots, but being an devout Alps guy, I have to say that I prefer Alps Electric double shots.

There are some very convincing look-alike caps for certain Alps boards that look just like OG Cherry DS though.

Its just how the legends and how bold the legend is

but yeah ALPS4LYFE
the problem with alps doubleshot is that they are so freakin rare in ansi layout

Why can I not shake the look of the box? I like it more than the keyboard.

bocahgundul wrote:

E3E wrote:

bocahgundul wrote: ugh why does I have to say this but yeah Cherry does make the best doubleshot ever

I do think that Cherry has very nice quality double shots, but being an devout Alps guy, I have to say that I prefer Alps Electric double shots.

There are some very convincing look-alike caps for certain Alps boards that look just like OG Cherry DS though.

Its just how the legends and how bold the legend is

but yeah ALPS4LYFE
the problem with alps doubleshot is that they are so freakin rare in ansi layout

Very true. The Leading Edge DC-3014 has them, the Acer KB101AS variant of the KB101A has them, and that odd metal-backed Packard Bell has them. Also the Japanese version of the Dell AT101 has them as well.

All difficult to find boards for sure.

After a few days of use - I can say that it is really nice keyboard and is also much quiter then modern black switches. Very smooth all the way. The only downside with this keyboard is thin PCB and not a particularly good PCB support - so it can be pushed down and up when installing / removing keycaps

Redmaus wrote: Why can I not shake the look of the box? I like it more than the keyboard.

Looks like this is just month before the last days of "West Gernamy"

bocahgundul wrote: ugh why does I have to say this but yeah Cherry does make the best doubleshot ever

Don't have as much experience with alps or other switches - but do agreed that cherry's are very nice, clean and unobtrusive

Scarpia wrote: Of course that's really just a danish keyboard, albeit that some tobacco chewing mountain hiking Tesla driving Norwegian seems to have swapped a couple of keycaps around XD

haha! true story

photekq wrote:

seebart wrote:

scottc wrote:

Thanks - really happy with it!

bocahgundul wrote:

E3E wrote:

bocahgundul wrote: ugh why does I have to say this but yeah Cherry does make the best doubleshot ever

I do think that Cherry has very nice quality double shots, but being an devout Alps guy, I have to say that I prefer Alps Electric double shots.

There are some very convincing look-alike caps for certain Alps boards that look just like OG Cherry DS though.

Its just how the legends and how bold the legend is

but yeah ALPS4LYFE
the problem with alps doubleshot is that they are so freakin rare in ansi layout

Hahaha, you haven't seen doubleshots until you have seen Honeywell doubleshots.

Abstractions wrote: Hahaha, you haven't seen doubleshots until you have seen Honeywell doubleshots.

You should see Fujitsu ones, they're about 33% heavier even than Honeywells xD .

May I ask how you came over this board? Curious Norwegian asking. Under the impression that stuff like this is hard to find in our little spot in the world. Suspect it's because the country has been so rich that everything interesting got tossed straight in the garbage.

iAmAhab wrote: May I ask how you came over this board? Curious Norwegian asking. Under the impression that stuff like this is hard to find in our little spot in the world. Suspect it's because the country has been so rich that everything interesting got tossed straight in the garbage.

Oh yes, that is a very correct description. Also recycling of old PC stuff aint especilly good. This one I got from ad on finn.no where I just asked for old keyboards in a WTB style. So an older guy called me and offered me old board he had for years - I offered him 300,- for it without any pictures or details - had good feeling about it. He did great job packaging it and sending original box - so just got lucky. Another time I got a crappy rubber-dome for the same price from another guy - so its a gamble.

But there is a few companies like www.ad.no which specialize in recycling - I do send them email or pay them a visit from time to time to check if they have any.

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