[TUHS] Sad News - we last two wonderful people in the past few weeks.

[Andrew Hume]

the connection is that these are switch registers on the front panel.
they ae designed for occasional use, not for long sessions with
multiple people flipping them on and off for hours on end.
they did last well, but its certainly not what they were designed for.

> On Apr 9, 2022, at 3:46 AM, Ralph Corderoy <ralph at inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> Eventually DEC Field Circus stopped replacing GT-40 switch registers
>> if they'd suspected that they were used for playing it :-)
> 
> Andrew Hume wrote:
>> i do remember the DEC engineers being bothered about replacing the
>> registers.
> 
> There's nothing at
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Lander_(video_game_genre)#Lunar_Lander_(1973)
> about the switch registers being worn by playing Burness's Moonlander.
> What's the connection?