Almost OT: Pushbutton switch latching - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Dec 2007

Message: 17
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:16:44 -0500
From: "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Almost OT: Pushbutton switch latching
To: "'cctalk at classiccmp.org'" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Message-ID: <200712061816.44523.rtellason at verizon.net>
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On Thursday 06 December 2007 11:24, M H Stein wrote:
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   Date: Wed, 05
Dec 2007 17:55:51 -0800
 From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>>
 Subject: Re: Almost OT: Pushbutton switch latching

 (No "almost" about it any more...)

 >On 5 Dec 2007 at 17:35, Fred Cisin wrote:
 >> . . . then I guess that a rotary telephone dial is out of the question
 >
 >Oooh, cool--Strowger switches! 
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> Pshaw; a mere 10 positions? I've got a 25-step 12-pole stepper here,
> just the ticket. Expandable? I'll say; add one of your 10-steps and you've
> got 250 positions. 
...
 (Trying to picture a 25-hole old-style telephone
dial...		:-) 
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Think bigger - the interrupter doesn't care how many! Or dial 10 at a time...

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