Alps 12KE080B keyboard slider over domes

Daniel · 01 Apr 2014, 21:35

Recently bought on ebay:
The seller told me he bought the keyboard at the end of the 90s for a µC project. He didn't have any more information besides of that.

The keyboard is equipped with Alps compatible sliders over domes.
The keycaps are doubleshot.

I think someone posted one of these in the Matteos DSA Retro groupbuy.

For the search engines:
Alps 12KE080B
80060001 - 4
MCL 437F

Pictures:

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Daniel · 01 Apr 2014, 21:35

More pictures.

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rindorbrot · 01 Apr 2014, 22:26

Ascaii is the guy where you probably have seen it before.

http://deskthority.net/photos-videos-f8 ... ps%20brown

Daniel Beardsmore · 01 Apr 2014, 22:49

The slider guide shafts don't come out, do they? Is the slider plate a single moulding?

I'm not sure how to classify that. It's a bizarre hybrid between [wiki]Alps dome with slider[/wiki] and [wiki]Alps integrated dome[/wiki].

I never cease to be amazed.

nourathar · 01 Apr 2014, 23:23

among the nicest Alps keycaps I've ever seen !
great find (super jealous

) !

Daniel · 02 Apr 2014, 21:58

rindorbrot wrote:Ascaii is the guy where you probably have seen it before.

http://deskthority.net/photos-videos-f8 ... ps%20brown

Thank you for the link!

Daniel Beardsmore wrote:The slider guide shafts don't come out, do they? Is the slider plate a single moulding?

I'm not sure how to classify that. It's a bizarre hybrid between [wiki]Alps dome with slider[/wiki] and [wiki]Alps integrated dome[/wiki].

I never cease to be amazed.

I didn't try to pull a slider out, but I'll try it tomorrow or at the week end.

The slider plate is single moulding.

Daniel Beardsmore · 06 Apr 2014, 01:57

I'm thinking that maybe the name would describe the fact that the dome is held down by … something. "Alps dome-held-in-place-by-…something".

I've just added every other Alps-mount switch already on the wiki, to [wiki]Alps mount recognition[/wiki]. This one is stuck until it gets a name.

002 · 06 Apr 2014, 02:13

Alps housed/enclosed/encapsulated/encased/someothersynonym dome?

Muirium · 06 Apr 2014, 03:14

Alps boxed/crate dome? I'd go with diced dome, but then every switch name would be alliterated if I had my way.

Daniel · 06 Apr 2014, 12:45

Some detailed pictures of the slider. Unfortunately I don't have the equipment to take proper pictures.

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JBert · 06 Apr 2014, 17:34

Ugh, so a hybrid between the integral mouldings of the HiTek keyboards and single dome switches underneath?

Good luck coming up with a short name...

Daniel Beardsmore · 06 Apr 2014, 23:37

[wiki]Alps semi-integrated dome[/wiki] will do for now.

sth · 09 Apr 2014, 19:19

ohmygosh that alps logo on the PCB... i want a baseball cap or something with that on it.

Daniel Beardsmore · 09 Apr 2014, 20:07

The design varies, and I never found a definitive version, but here's my best effort to date:

http://deskthority.net/wiki/File:Alps_E ... d_logo.svg

Edit: If someone can get me a perfectly top-down version of that logo, I'll redo the drawing. I was working off a switch mould, which was all I had at the time that was free of skew. I only created the SVG for the switch recognition diagrams, but it would be nice to have a proper version.

Daniel · 09 Apr 2014, 20:47

Daniel Beardsmore wrote:[wiki]Alps semi-integrated dome[/wiki] will do for now.

Thank you for creating that wiki page. I'm going to upload some pictures on the weekend.