Further strangenesses. So, a long time ago a staff member made threats (sort of) to sue the company if they didn't buy her a suitably ergonomic keyboard. $600, no idea the make/model but I had it on my desk for a while. The gimbals made it very tall but it was a fully separated keyboard although you couldn't adjust the distance between the halves.
anyway I went looking for it today because now that I know about things like Cherry vs. Alps I though I'd find it (staff member didn't like it, returned it to IT after about three weeks) and I had no success, but I found two el-cheapo keyboards, and thought I had a find ... I pulled a keycap off, and low and behold, clearly an Alps style square keycap.
I pulled a second one off, though, and realized it was a membrane switch, but had square through-holse with X-shaped holders, that accepted the tiny-square Alps keycaps.
No I didn't write down the model. The top just says, in very bold letters, "USB" But the sticker on the bottom had the name and I've never heard of it and don't remeber now. Ergitech maybe? Not logitech, I don't think it started "ergo-" anything ... but pretty sure 'e' was the first, or maybe second letter, and is similar to the pronunciation of "logitech"
Fake Alps membrane switch. What the heck.