Until I saw your post, I was going to guess the A,0,2,3,4,6,F switch would switch it into different numerical bases. Like, if you wanted to do math in binary, switch to the “2” position. “0” (or maybe “A”) would be base 10. “F” would be hexadecimal. But what you have definitely makes more sense.
Until I saw your post, I was going to guess the A,0,2,3,4,6,F switch would switch it into different numerical bases. Like, if you wanted to do math in binary, switch to the “2” position. “0” (or maybe “A”) would be base 10. “F” would be hexadecimal. But what you have definitely makes more sense.
F is 15, so that’d be weird for hex, and I’ve never seen base 4 or 6 used for anything, base 8 is common for some things but missing here.
It kind of makes sense in that 15 is the last single digit in hex.
I think some computers have been known to work in base 6. Or maybe I’m just confusing it with them using 6 bits. Probably the latter.
6 bits per digit, 12 bit words. Octal (8) number system.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8