Talk:Toggle switch

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The reference to La Blue Girl is highly dubious at best. Neither the word 'toggle' or 'switch' even appear in the La Blue Girl article. Besides, the person assuming the reference is deriving it from the English translation of a Japanese word/story/concept, hardly encyclopaedic, I think it should be removed. Vespine 09:01, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

You're right. Even if the reference turns out to be valid, it should be a dablink rather than a part of the article. --Heron 17:20, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bank of toggle switches as an early boot device register

The early minicomputers were able to be booted from a bank of toggle switches. The wildest boot device I have heard of was a shaped wood section, from an ordinary piece of wood, say a two-by-four, with the toggle switch settings notched into the corners. The programmer could then rotate this boot device to the correct setting and toggle in the next word of the boot program into memory. We need a picture of such a row of toggle switches, say from a DEC PDP or a Data General Nova, for the encyclopedia. --Ancheta Wis 00:00, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:20, 13 February 2008 (UTC)