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Interesting... although its odd that programmers adopted "radio button", given that by the time computer programming became a thing, I'm pretty sure car radios had dials, not push buttons.
In any case; If I were to say "click the radio button" to your average non-programmer person off the street, they'd be looking for a button with a picture of a radio on it.
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From: techwr-l-bounces+lynne -dot- wright=kronos -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+lynne -dot- wright=kronos -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of Peter Neilson
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On Fri, 03 Feb 2017 14:10:09 -0500, Wright, Lynne <Lynne -dot- Wright -at- kronos -dot- com> wrote:
> won't know what a radio button is (that's what programmers call them,
> but from a user perspective, what do they have to do with radios?
> Nothing!)
In your 1949 Ford's car radio there were five round pushbuttons for preselected stations. Pushing in one of them popped out another one, mechanically. Some more recent car radios have had a similar function, electronically.
My stations were WEEI, WNAC, WHDH, WBZ and WMEX.
The term definitely does not belong in user-facing documentation.
On a totally different note, the box on the right names one guy as both TODD and TOM. Oops!
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