It was a KA with more than one basic wash cycle. The KA Electra I have is like that - you have a timer dial that goes through the prewash, wash, rinse, then dry (although you can manually dial the timer to the dry phase to warm dishes)but that's it. The Varicycle was a fancier model and, I am guessing given the number of push buttons, offered a "full cycle" (a regular wash cycle), "soak and scrub" (a pots and pans or heavy soil cycle), and "rinse and hold". Funny but I don't recall if the top-loaders ever had more than three cycles...