Re:In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox
by thaumasiotes on Sunday January 28, 2024 @08:48AM
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That wasn't anything to do with radios though. That was just the way mutually exclusive buttons worked. I had a portable tape player where the playback controls were the same way.
You'd push one of those buttons in to select a station and it'd stay pressed. When you push another button in to choose another station, the previously pressed button would "pop" back up/depress (thereby "unselecting" itself), thereby enforcing the mutual exclusivity of a station selection.