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From: patc@tekcrl.TEK.COM (Pat Caudill)
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Subject: Re: History: foo and fubar are unrelated
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Date: Sun, 18-Oct-87 12:26:11 EDT
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In article <417@kksys.UUCP> gk@kksys.UUCP (Greg Kemnitz) writes:
>The ALTAIR front panel was originally designed with octal in mind --
>the switches were grouped in threes, rather than fours.  When IMSAI
>released their machine, they went with larger paddle switches
>physically grouped in eights, but color coded in groups of four.

	The build instructions for the IMSAI front panel said you could
do it any way you wanted. They just gave you 8 red switches and 8 blue
ones which would all fit next to each other. The directions said it most
of your code to toggle in was octal to arrange them in groups of three
but if it was hex to put groups of four. Nearly every one used groups
of four though.

		Pat Caudill
		patc@tekcrl

P.S. Mine is still being used but I get blank looks when I tell
peoble at the local computer store what kind of computer I have.