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Offline Oqsy

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Another "Name that Switch!" thread
« on: Wed, 14 April 2010, 22:29:49 »
Found this on an Olympus board at work.  It's attached to a piece of medical equipment, and I don't know if it's USB / PS/2, or some proprietary or older style connection, but my money is on USB given the newish appearance of the board.  I've never seen this switch before so I thought I'd bring it to the experts!

edit: please excuse the crappy iphone pic... the room was poorly lit and I didn't have a high res camera with macro and flash available.
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Another "Name that Switch!" thread
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 14 April 2010, 22:31:01 »
I say Peerless, but it doesn't look quite right. Almost like there's an extra layer between the "slider" and the actual switch parts.
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Offline Oqsy

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Another "Name that Switch!" thread
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 14 April 2010, 22:34:18 »
hmm, I can't find any example pics of a peerless switch on google images.  I'll search more :D
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Another "Name that Switch!" thread
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 14 April 2010, 22:35:11 »
There oughta be one here.

Common keyboards that have them are Fujitsus with models starting in FKB47xx. This oughta give you something to go on if nobody posts a pic sooner.
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Offline Oqsy

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« Reply #4 on: Wed, 14 April 2010, 22:39:49 »
hmm, apparently no support for boolean / wildcard searches on vBulletin, so searching for FKB47xx, FKB47, FKB47??, or FKB47** yields zero results.
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Another "Name that Switch!" thread
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 15 April 2010, 01:32:49 »
That is a rubber dome stem, I have a bunch of Fujitsu keyboards with them. They are "usually" from older keyboards. I think all of the ones I have are PS2.
Some of those boards have curved plates so that keys are the same in different rows.
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Another "Name that Switch!" thread
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 15 April 2010, 02:45:13 »
Looks like the switches in the Sun Type 5.
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« Reply #7 on: Thu, 15 April 2010, 05:36:56 »
Yeargh, so there are rubber dome Peerless lookalike switches in addition to rubber dome Peerless lookalike keyboards?

Frustrating.
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