Talk:Front panel

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Thought we needed this.

- A picture to go here.

Something about how used to go here.

Some example machines (e.g., PDP-8) to go here.

Something about early (1970's) hobby machines (e.g., MITS Altair 8800) to go here.

Something about ze Blinkenlights, etc, to go here.

Include (ideally with pictures):

DIP switches
Dials
Nixie tubes
Push buttons
Rocker switches
Rollers on, e.g., 370/165
Sense indicators can be both set and read under program control
Toggle switches

Mention trend towards keyboard/display hardware consoles with a lot of internal code in place of complicated arrays of discrete controls and displays, e.g., IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC). --Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 09:41, 21 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Is the display console image of the CDC 6600 edit

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Is the image of the display console on the CDC 6600 relevant to the article? That display console was simply a terminal, and did not function as a front panel. A more appropriate image would be the Dead Start panel from the same machine. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 13:24, 22 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

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