Re: IBM 9020 FAA/ATC Systems from 1960's

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From: jav... John Varela
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 23:17

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On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:32:42, "Daniel House" <d.h...@computer.org> wrote:

> About 1/4 the way down the left hand side is a square hole.  It's where a
> lighted button went.  Any idea what the button was (vainly hoping I can find
> the correctly labeled button somewhere)?

I have no idea.  I never worked directly on or with the 9020E.  I've forwarded
your question to someone who did, but I doubt he'll recall any details of the 
control panel this many years later.

-- 
    John Varela

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