pushbutton
Example Sentences
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The effect was very "analog." It reminded me of switching channels on a monaural, pushbutton car radio, or watching a theatrical documentary shot on film.
From Salon ● May 23, 2011
At electronic consoles shirtsleeved men spoke into pushbutton telephones, scanned slender strips of coded paper punched out by high-speed computers.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Evanston, Ill.'s Washington National Insurance Co. building, Otis Elevator installed an electronically controlled elevator system which, it says, makes self-service pushbutton cars practical in busy office buildings for the first time.
From Time Magazine Archive
Michael L. Dertouzos, Director Laboratory for Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Mass. More chilling than the vision of a pushbutton life was your litany of the "benign" influence of new-generation computers.
From Time Magazine Archive
His haggardness suggested that for once the pushbutton to the switch of oblivion had failed him.
From Over the Pass by Frederick Palmer
