Cherry
Contents
Overview
Cherry AG is a German input device manufacturer that originated as American manufacturer Cherry Electrical Products Corp in 1953. In its various guises, Cherry has been manufacturing computer keyboards since as far back as 1971 (the oldest confirmed product literature). Cherry may not be the oldest extant keyboard manufacturer in the world, but there will be few if any contenders to that claim. Cherry’s DIN-compliant MX series has been in continuous production since 1983 (the same age as Topre’s electrostatic capacitive switches), and has evolved to meet the changing demands of the market. Cherry continue to innovate in the keyboard market, bringing out new mechanical switch types to broaden their product range to suit different markets.
Organisation
Product range
Keyboards
Switches
- S31 low-energy miniature open
- Reed switches
- M4/M5/M6 Series (‘gold “crosspoint” contact’) and Serie M7
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Solid state capacitive
- Series MF
- M8/MD/MJ series
- M9
- MX
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Full-Travel Sealed Contact
- Next Generation Keyboard (US type)
- UK type
- MY (German type)
- M11
- M85 series
- Cherry-produced Hi-Tek keyboards
- MX Low Profile
- MV (formerly “Viola”)
- MX Ultra Low Profile
Components
Parts
Research
Reference
- Common part number schema (M8/M9/MD/MJ/MV/MX/MY/ML)
- Part number schema summaries for M8, M9, MD, MJ, MV (Viola), MX, MY and ML
- Timeline
External links
- Cherry date codes (Deskthority wiki)
- Cherry article numbers (Deskthority wiki)