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Oh, those marketing folk who designed the console switches -- how often I dreamed of appropriate places to send them for education...
by watersb 6y ago
Oh, those marketing folk who designed the console switches -- how often I dreamed of appropriate places to send them for education...
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoWhat was wrong with them?
- watersb 6y agoThe sexy plastic switches on the PDP-11 console panel are not easy to toggle, to operate from the bottom or the top of the switch. When you are flipping through a few hundred words of bootloader or debugger, I was way faster on simple, metal toggle switches. I will try to find a better example, there are a number of these demonstrations on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qv5b1Xowxdk https://youtu.be/qv5b1Xowxdk