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Title: Another "Name that Switch!" thread
Post by: Oqsy 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.

Title: Another "Name that Switch!" thread
Post by: kishy 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.

Title: Another "Name that Switch!" thread
Post by: Oqsy 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

Title: Another "Name that Switch!" thread
Post by: kishy 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.

Title: Another "Name that Switch!" thread
Post by: Oqsy 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.

Title: Another "Name that Switch!" thread
Post by: clickclack 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.
=)

Title: Another "Name that Switch!" thread
Post by: ch_123 on Thu, 15 April 2010, 02:45:13

Looks like the switches in the Sun Type 5.

Title: Another "Name that Switch!" thread
Post by: kishy 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.