"Mechanically" is funnier expression. But kinda true because it switched also trunk lines in some small PBX. 8080 was bloody expensive in 1976 and RAMs were too. I only heard about because I was employed to design something similar for Telenokia.
Low effort humour is discouraged, it's in the site guidelines and since it wasn't amusing, just confusing, perhaps you should skip the humour and consult them.
Uh. I seem to be suffering from the Mandela effect; it is not in the site guidelines. It's definitely the overall policy officially or otherwise though (one which I'm entirely happy with despite having a juvenile sense of humour myself).
