Old, dirty, and disappointing. Early 80's
But who built it?

Not Cherry, that would be too easy.

I've seen these thick things before!

Wild guess: Alps.

epson
or not. the one i was thinking about has other switches..

SMK ?

They are getting easier!

The previous one was just evil

Next hint, my very first "calculator" with doubleshots had these switches.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Apmv8CmK_sA/TJ0xJz7XrPI/AAAAAAAAD2w/Y_UAiI7BNHw/s800/2010-09-24%252018.24.51.jpg

Yup, that's the one. Anyone desolder it, and look at the back?

Now THAT is 'thick key-caps'

What does it weigh ?

Nice guess 7bit

Peter wrote:Now THAT is 'thick key-caps'

What does it weigh ?

No idea, but probably a lot more the Signature plastics caps

Wasn't a guess, but I've seen something similar some time ago. Most presumably posted by you .

Nice layout. Wound be the perfect keyboard for todays avergage user. Who needs Alt and Control? But an un-shifted @-sign is very important for writing e-mails to the grand-children.

With Data Sheet you'd get bonus points.



How do you TAG images in Wiki here????? Otherwise I will have 1000 images with no way to FIND them?

Hmm...nvm

That is the FOUR Contact mysterious Vintage ALPS!

I got a pic of that.

Somewhere.

Ah, here it is.

source:
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?1717 ... lps-switch
(lol on the discussion)

That's odd. As long as you're not French they should take you.

I'm French,




but i'm a big-breasted girl ! Is there any exception ?

Also in the...
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?2959 ... ALPS-Guide

Scroll to unidentified ALPS.

Added pic to MediaWiki.

So HaaTa, got a Model Number? I'd add it to my GH guide but everybody is locked out of the Wikis!