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Hee hee hee - I'm pretty sure radio dials and buttons co-existed. Ten
points if you know what the Conelrad settings were. No fair googling.
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Oh! So that's where the term came from?
Interesting... although its odd that programmers adopted "radio button",
given that by the time computer programming became a thing, I'm pretty sure
car radios had dials, not push buttons.
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