Building a replica Mainframe Console

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Slightly off-topic:

I want to build a replica console for one of the really old mainframes - like this:



Of course, my reason for not building that isn't scale - that doesn't scare me. It's that I can't find a single reference that explains what each of the blinkenlights / switches / buttons do.

Anyone know of a blinkenlights console that's fairly well documented?

Thanks,


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[Chyros]

Oooooh, that just looks magnificent.... I want a wall in my house to look like that .

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looks like they are full banks of program flags or registers , possibly even memory. So down to the level of is bit 1 1 or 0 is bit 2 1 or 0 and so on.

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Oooooh, that just looks magnificent.... I want a wall in my house to look like that .

When I decide which I'm going to do I'll publish the designs so you can follow along if you want. So help me find one that you like too

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looks like they are full banks of program flags or registers , possibly even memory. So down to the level of is bit 1 1 or 0 is bit 2 1 or 0 and so on.

Pretty much - I think it also allows you to directly manipulate memory and registers on the fly. You 'halt' the CPU, make your changes and go!

Like a hardware GDB!

If I could find documentation for the whole panel that would rock...