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    English: A switch important to computer science folklore, from Guy L. Steele Jr.'s "A story about 'Magic'", a switch found on a computer in MIT's AI lab, that is labelled with "MAGIC" and "MORE MAGIC".
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    Source https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/1232
    Author Guy L. Steele Jr.

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    A switch labelled with Magic/More Magic, compared with the size of a US penny.

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