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geekhack Community => Input Devices => Topic started by: killazys on Tue, 26 March 2013, 10:50:05

Title: Bloomberg Terminal keyboard switch type?
Post by: killazys on Tue, 26 March 2013, 10:50:05

This (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Bloombger_terminal_keyboard.jpg). I really like how the switches feel, but all my research has turned up that it's a "mechanical switch" of some sort.

Does anyone have any knowledge of what the switches used here are?

Title: Re: Bloomberg Terminal keyboard switch type?
Post by: esoomenona on Tue, 26 March 2013, 10:52:05

What kind of travel are you getting on them? Looks like the could be scissor switches based on the height of them.

Title: Re: Bloomberg Terminal keyboard switch type?
Post by: SmallFry on Tue, 26 March 2013, 10:53:28

That's what I thought also, though look at the finger print reader on the left, and the thickness of the cable. Thick cable. Try getting MiMiC to make one of those, I dare you. :P

Title: Re: Bloomberg Terminal keyboard switch type?
Post by: killazys on Tue, 26 March 2013, 15:41:22

It doesn't feel like a membrane-type rubber dome keyboard. I know the older ones were membranes, but maybe my fingers just suck.

Travel is about 3mm, and there's a clicky actuation point in the middle of the key.. it almost feels like rubber dome but hard.