15 Jun
2015
15 Jun
'15
7:31 a.m.
I can tell you what they were called internally at DEC.
Mainly due to the fact I was there at the time.
They were called Toggles or Toggle switches and their use was called
'Toggling' hence 'To toggle in the bootstrap'
Any DEC field engineer of that time knew by heart the sequence of octal
numbers you entered to bring the system up.
Rod Smallwood
On 15/06/2015 14:11, Noel Chiappa wrote:
From: Pontus
Pihlgren
> Seeing the one with the one with the missing
toggle switches reminds
> me that I have an enquiry out re getting some made.
I believe many would appreciate that.
We probably ought to standardize our terminology to be slightly less
confusing. As we've determined, the actual switch is a slide switch, not a
toggle. I'm not sure what the official DEC name is for the plastic lever which
actuates the slide switch - anyone know?
Noel
PS: If a way is developed to make the plastic levers, the 11/20 uses the
exact same part, just in PDP-11 colours.