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These buttons a hoot. Can anything better capture the world of 1960s commercial computer culture than the top row of switches? "Normal", "One Operation", "Manual Input", "Stand By", "Operate", "Stand By To Operate". Pause a moment in their memory. Flip flops were expensive and gold fingers were cheap.

Yep, single stepping via a dedicated set of buttons on the front of the big box. No terminal required. Note the middle row, to the left of power: "Start", "Clear Counter", "Fill Instr", "Execute Instr"

Is the slot to upper right for card or paper tape input? Or paper tape / cash register receipt output? Power ON is 2nd from the right, middle row. Power OFF is far right edge, middle row. Might have been really satisfying to reach over and turn it OFF.


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Author Bill Abbott

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