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Re: That's the Hi-Tech option...

The ICL System 4/70 series of mainframes had a row of lever switches for manual memory accesses. In Systems Test we developed callouses along the top of our right index finger - which was used to reset all the switches in one fast swipe between each 32bit word of data.

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