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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: jdeblese on Fri, 21 June 2013, 15:06:37
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I picked up this old number pad from an electronics store sale recently. No brand name on the case, just a few bits of text on the PCB that lead nowhere on Google. Keycaps are doubleshot, and does anyone recognize the mechanism? It's a single 14-key switch block as far as I can tell without desoldering it.
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A custom job for someone, you think?
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Couldn't find anything on the DT wiki, which has a lot of uncommon switches, but similar ones here (6 & 35) (http://deskthority.net/photos-videos-f8/name-those-keycaps-t2712.html). Very nice find!
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Switches are referred to as "stackpole" (I think) by HaaTa and others. They are not too uncommon for vintage gear.
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Switches similar to space invaders. May be the same manufacturer? Only these are even pre-dated even older than cherry (check that, an assumption). I have all the 3 types and feeling wise the nib space invader is the best, second would be those vintage cherry blacks, then these stackpole types.