Mildly interesting Silitek Alps Mount Dome with Slider
Posted: 05 Sep 2020, 07:46
I found this rather mundane looking keyboard at a local charity shop for 2US. I was originally going to pass it by, but it felt like a dome with slider so I pulled a cap and surprisingly] it is Alps mount sliders.
Cheers Mates,
--Given
It also has a weird built in trackpad with some odd buttons for the mouse put into the space of the split.
If these buttons control the mouse click it will make for a terrible experience. They are just very custom keycaps on the sliders. The bind terrible.
They seem to be quite similar to other silitek sliders from what I recall of them. I haven't looked at my other board in ages. The interesting part is that they're Alps mount. I can't say that I've ever seen that before.
Here are the sliders.
Here are the sliders with a cap from my good ol' Dell AT101W
Here's the other way around.
Here's the main controller PCB confirming what we already knew and that it was made by Silitek.
Here's the back label.
This was interesting to me. I'm not sure what this button is for on this particular keyboard. The only keyboards I know that use this button is apple keyboards and this one for sure isn't for an Apple. It connects in with PS/2 and RS-232. If anyone here knows what this button if for please do let me know. It doesn't do anything on my Linux machine. Cheers Mates,
--Given