deskthority

Following on from Muirium's "ziggurat" description of the Canon AP400's switch sliders, I'm thinking:

• [wiki]Alps vintage tee mount[/wiki] → Alps switchplate ziggurat — "tee mount" is misleading, as the slider does in fact accept all four keycap orientations, instead of the one that "tee mount" suggests; moreover, the switch is most notable for introducing the switchplate that gave complicated Alps its name
• Alps Double Click → Alps plate spring ziggurat — very similar slider, but what's notable about the switches in the AP400 is that they have a plate spring assembly, just placed on its side within the switch (or on both sides, if it's a double-click switch, which most of them are not).

Yays and nays?

Naturally, I'm all for it. Ziggurats are an ancient kind of stepped pyramid, as well as a sweet sounding name for a switch. The sliders in question bear a jagged resemblance:


To a four thousand year old style of Sumerian pyramid.


And the much later Mayan version:

I approves

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