Difference between revisions of "Toggle switch"

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A toggle switch is a short lever switch. It can be used to initiate an action in a computer, or to enter data.

Toggling refers to enter a series of words of data or code into memory. On early computers without ROM or hardware read-in, this was the method for bootstrapping.