Up / down switches?

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Charles Ess

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Nov 21, 2023, 2:16:16 AM11/21/23
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Very sorry to be querying the group so frequently of late - but here's another important bit of uncertainty. 
FWIW, I've spent quite some time trying to track this down in various ways, including looking at the 11-70 operating manual as well as scouring this group and YouTube - but I'm not finding absolutely clear instructions as to which switches are to be installed moving up and which moving down.

Yes, as Oscar helpfully points out, the Switch Bracket gives some explicit indications: PUSH UP for all of the SR switches, and the same for the EXAM switch. But the remaining switches on my Switch Bracket are marked only with PUSH ON. 
Oscar's build instructions include: 
Push two PURple TOGgle switches into the left- and rightmost of the 28 slots of the switch bracket. As the legend tells you, the left-hand one will be mounted so you can push it UP, and the right-hand one upside down, so you can push it DowN.
This means that the right-most slotted switch = SING_INST (i.e., the right-most slot for the START switch is missing the right side and so doesn't count as "slotted," I'm inferring.)
BUT: when I look at how people use the machine to enter and run a program - the EXAM switch (marked PUSH UP on the Switch Bracket) is pushed DOWN in one example. So I'm a little uncertain here ...
This is the list I've managed by collating between different sources (going right to left):
TEST = UP
LOAD_ADDR = DOWN
EXAM = DOWN
DEP = UP
CONT = DOWN
ENA_HALT = DOWN
SING_INST = DOWN
START = DOWN

If someone can either point me to a resource that I've unfortunately missed but helps make this clear - and/or dis/confirm from your own building experience whether or not this is the correct orientation of these last switches, I'd be extremely grateful.
Many thanks in advance - 
- charles

oscarv

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Nov 21, 2023, 4:41:51 AM11/21/23
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Charles,


On Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 8:16:16 AM UTC+1 charl...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, as Oscar helpfully points out, the Switch Bracket gives some explicit indications: PUSH UP for all of the SR switches, and the same for the EXAM switch. But the remaining switches on my Switch Bracket are marked only with PUSH ON. 

It's "push dn, as in DowN" :-)


oscarv

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Nov 21, 2023, 4:42:03 AM11/21/23
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Charles,


On Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 8:16:16 AM UTC+1 charl...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, as Oscar helpfully points out, the Switch Bracket gives some explicit indications: PUSH UP for all of the SR switches, and the same for the EXAM switch. But the remaining switches on my Switch Bracket are marked only with PUSH ON. 

Charles Ess

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Nov 21, 2023, 4:54:50 AM11/21/23
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Ipps. Ack-thppt (Bill-the-Cat). Er (Danish / Norwegian) ...
Where's the emoji (ies) for: deeply grateful for the gentle pointer to what should have been obvious + at my age, I should not trust my eye-brain combination, and should also make an appointment with my eye doctor + color me very, very red indeed?
Wherever those may be - as usual, thanks a million!
- c.

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