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VARIOUS MACHINE INTERFACES


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Beige climate-control panel behind plastic or glass with various switches, buttons, knobs, and circular thermometer meter, manufactured by Norman Bragar Company of Newark, NJ   Close up of top half of the control panel with (top to bottom, left to right) the thermometer meter, toggle switch with handwritten labels "Right Coil" and "Left Coil," chickenhead knob on square base plate with label "LOW TEMP. CUT-OUT," yellow light labeled "Cooling," chickenhead knob labeled "HIGH TEMP. CUT-OUT," three white lights and a red labeled "MANUAL LIGHTS"   Close up of bottom half of the control panel with the "MANUAL LIGHTS," two push switches labeled "CONTROL" and "AUTOMATIC DEFROST," two more switches and a button (accessible through a slot in the plastic) labeled "CHAMBER LIGHT," "ALARM SILENCE," and "ALARM RESET," a white light underneath the "CHAMBER LIGHT" label, some kind of coil with a labeled central plate, and a thermostat.   A different climate-control panel behind plastic/glass, also manufactured by Norman Bragar and with similar controls.   Close up of top half of the second control panel with a "% RELATIVE HUMIDITY" meter, beneath which is a toggle switch controlling which scale (0-100 or 0-50%) it uses, two chickenhead knobs on square base plates labeled "LOW TEMP. CUT OUT" and "HIGH TEMP. CUT-OUT," and three white lights labeled "LOW HEAT," "HIGH HEAT," and "COOLING."   Close up of the bottom half of the second control panel, with exactly the same controls (though in slightly different positions) as the last, though there is no slot to allow access to some of them as on the first.   Close-up of the "LOW TEMP. CUT OUT" chickenhead knob on base plate with label below. The base plate has screw holes in the corners but is actually fixed by screws above and below the knob. The plate has a radial scale reading 0 - 160 degrees F on the outside, with odd multiples of 10 labeled, and -20 to 70 degrees C on the inside, with every multiple of 10 labeled. Below the knob is written "LO TEMP," and below that and a bit to the right, in smaller text, "OFF".   Close-up of the aforementioned "some sort of coil," with an upside-down label on the top revealing it is actually the "TIMING MOTOR." The central plate has, center outwards, the word "SET" in a CCW arrow, a ring containing the words "NIGHT" and "EVENING" on black and "AFTERNOON" and "MORNING" on white, and a ring labeled with the hours of the day, somewhat obscured by the thin radial slats that made me think this was some sort of coil.   The top portion of an assembly, labeled on its upper panel by scotch-taped sticky note "empty chassis box." This is on top of an older bright green, partially obscured label. A plaque also labels the upper panel of the assembly (same as the sticky note is on) "DISTRUBUTED PROCESSOR NO. 2," manufactured by THE BENDIX CORPORATION, TEST SYSTEMS DIVISION for WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP of HUNT VALLEY, MARYLAND. Not sure how it got here. This upper plate has a power and reset switch and two black handles and that's pretty much it. Underneath this plate is a power supply with two rectangular meters measuring DC volts and amps, each with an adjustment knob, and ports for ground, positive and negative voltage. Just below the power source, the very top of another module is visible, labeled "COMPUTER 'B'" and "Industrial Computer Source."   Here we see the whole "Computer 'B'" module. Actually a bit of the right end is out of frame but probably there was nothing there. There's a vent on the left, then below that a small black recessed plate with a KEYBOARD port (I think it would be a PS/2, but it's got 5 prong holes plus a little slot at the bottom?? That doesn't look right), reset switch, red POWER switch, and a little red light labeled "HD." On the right end of the module, the hinges and left half of, presumably, a hatch are visible. Below this module is the inside of the chassis.   Two modules, the top painted a pale maybe-green-maybe-badly-lit-grey and the bottom a white or pale grey. The top is a Varian Ti-BALL CONTROL UNIT with a Ti-BALL TIMER. The panel has a breaker-style on switch, green "CURRENT" light, silver "SIMULATION RATE CONTROL" knob, and linear "LIFE" meter. The TIMER sub-panel has two silver knobs, "TOTAL CYCLE TIME (HOURS)" and "ON TIME (MINUTES)," a green light, and a toggle switch between "TIME" and "CONTINUOUS". There are two notes pasted on the module, both reading "OUTPOST / VACUUM ELECTRONICS / FRAGILE! / 10F. The bottom module is lablled Veeco and "IBM 2669924", and is a PS-202 SUBLIMATION POWER SUPPLY. It has two larger silver knobs ("POWER ADJUST" and "OUTPUT", two smaller knobs on base plates, a red "POWER ON" button, a push switch between "STEADY" and "CYCLE," handles, and an AC ammeter.   Here we see the very bottom of the latter module in the last image, and two more full modules. The top is narrower and a sort of pastel azure, a TCR POWER SUPPLY made by ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENTS INC. As expected it has a DC voltmeter and ammeter and voltage and current control knobs. Below it is a wider off-grey ULTEK 350 MA ION PUMP CONTROL, DUAL VOLTAGE made by PERKIN-ELMER. It has a P-E pressure meter in Torr (noted in orange) with a black 0-20 linear and orange (a bit over) 10^-9 to 10^-5 logarithmic scale. That's a bit confusing. It's got a RANGE SELECTOR knob and some sockets, and a circuit breaker-looking power switch with a white tag tied on it reading XSCRAP, very ineffectively scribbed out, with HOLD written underneath, then further details. There are also a few lights and sockets. At the very bottom of the image the top of another PERKIN-ELMER module of the same color is visible.   Here we see that bottom module. It's almost identical to the one above it, except the label text is smaller and the RANGE SELECTOR has a different knob. The tag on its power switch is yellow and has HOLD printed on rather than handwritten this time, and also has a date of 5/22/06 in the details. I thought I needed to get pictures of these machines quickly before they got scrapped but apparently they tend to sit around for quite a while...   Close-up of the pair of smaller knobs on the SUBLIMATION POWER SUPPLY. They are mounted on black, rounded square base plates with 0-5 (left) and 0-10 (right) minute scales. Each plate reads GENERAL TIME on the bottom, and the left knob says HAYDON right above that. The knobs themselves are round, ridged and pale grey with pointers sticking out, topped with black discs with a little yellow triangle marker on each of their edges, aligned with the pointer. That's kind of overkill in my opinion, unless the black discs are actually separate knobs on top of the main knobs?   Mostly empty chassis with what looks like a power supply, black, mounted across the middle. There's a rectangular meter in the center measuring no visible units, but labeled "J. WHITE CO. SERIES 800 POWERED CAMAC CRATE." Underneath are 6, 12, and 24 volt sockets (2 of each, positive and negative). To the left are two lights ("ON" and "HI TEMP") and a power switch; to the right are five rectangular buttons. To either side are large vents, with slightly smashed-in multilayer metal filters. The top edge of the module is labeled with numbers 1-25, as is the top edge of a hollow unit directly underneath this module.   Close-up of the J WHITE CO. meter. It has 5 different scales- above the scale marks, to 56 and to 4, and below, to 32, 16, and 8.   Close-up of a square STANDARD ENGINEERING CORPORATION meter on black plate- presumably a voltmeter. Above the marks, the meter has a 0-30 scale on fives, with 24 specifically present as well, and below the marks, a 0 to tad-over-8 and a smaller 0-50 scale. The meter also has a Mesoamerican looking logo. To the right of the meter is a STATUS port, and below are rectangular buttons to set the voltage to -24, -6, +6, and +24, and two more labeled I and E. All but the +24 and I buttons are missing their caps. Below the buttons are ports labeled -24, -12, -6, COM, +6, +12, and +24, the COM port black and the rest red.   Zooming out from the another of the same meter a little, we see it is on the left side of a rectangular unit similar to the last described. This one has no missing button caps and a blocked off STATUS port. The top edge is numbered, with only 1-20 visible. To the right of the meter is part of a rectangular gap, with a wide grid and some wire bundles inside. Below the gap is a velcro strip. The whole unit appears to be in a chassis below an empty section. To its left on the black chassis frame is a handle.   A close-up view of another assembly, with an unusually elegant appearance. Its panel surface is brushed grey metal, with a thinner top bar and thicker bottom bar of a pale copper color. The visible part of the top bar is numbered 10-16. At the center of the assembly is the actual control panel, with another STANDARD ENGINEERING CORPORATION meter with same logo and scales, but printed white on black. To its left are a red ON light and a black POWER button, and to its left are a red TEMP / WARN night and a STATUS socket. Below are seven sockets and 6 buttons, also same as on the last panel (no button caps are missing). Half the width of the bottom bar is cut out around the buttons. To either side of the central control panel are plates with holes cut out (rectangles with semicircle ends), beneath which is a foam filter material. Above the module is a metal bar with regularly spaced screw holes.   Zooming out, we see the numbers on the top bar run from 2-24 (wide side bars where 1 and 25 would be), and that the botom bar is labeled ULTIMA 3000 in a 70s science fiction paperback sort of font. Below the ULTIMA 3000 is another module, an azure LeCroy MODEL 8025 INSTRUMENT MAINFRAME with some silvery buttons, a bunch of rectangular display lights, a STATUS socket, and a rectangular window that presumably shows a segmented display when powered. The module has "E bay" written on it in sharpie. Above and below these two modules are empty spaces.   Close up of the left side of a different azure LeCroy modle, a MODEL 1434. It is a narrower rectangular panel, numbered 1-9 on its top edges. This one also has a window, and it is visibly a segmented display (one two-segment digit to display 1 and three full seven-segments) It has a POWER ON toggle switch with a painted line to a green light, a red SHUT DOWN light, and THERMAL WARNING socket / white light pair. There is a toggle switch between V and I, a bunch of sockets labeled VOLTAGE CHECK (-24, -12, -6, 0, +6, +12, +24), and a silver knob labeled METER RANGE with the same voltage levels marked, excepting 0.   A dark grey control panel under yellow light, its left side receding into darkness behind a corner. It is the face of a HIGH VOLTAGE CONTROL PANEL manufactured by NJE CORPORATION of KENILWORTH, N.J. Its controls are all black, grey, white, or silver, and consist of buttons, a large knob, and toggle switches. It has two NJE meters, rounded squares, measuring D-C kilovolts and D-C milliamps. Along the top of its face is written "Set for (+) Output Voltage" in marker. On its right side it has a silver handle with a white HOLD tag tied to it.   A close-up of the two NJE meters. The kilovoltmeter has three scales- 0-30 and 0-12 on top of the measurement marks, and 0-6 on the bottom. The milliammeter has 0-50 and 0-10 on the top and 0-5 below.   Image centered on a grey control panel with two metal handles. Below it is the top of another panel, slightly darker grey, and above it is a yellow panel. The yellow panel has three 3-prong power sockets, a power toggle and light, and a wide sticky note titled X-BAND with instructions for using the controls below. The central control panel has two Simpson meters measuring DC kilovolts on a 0-20 scale. Below each meter is a black knob, respectively labeled CHANNEL 1 and CHANNEL 2, a fuse, an orange light, and a toggle. Between the two meters' associated controls is a column consisting of: a white light, a toggle, a button, and a red light. There's also a toggle switch under the left meter labeled COCK, and what appears to be a HOLD tag on the left handle. There's visible dust on the lights. This thing hasn't been touched in a while.   Close-up of one of the Simpson KV meters. It's very dusty on top, of course. I already described the basics. The needle pointer's pointer end has a bulbous base and thin tip like an exaggerated raindrop. Between 15 and 20 on the scale over the tick marks there's a sloppily applied arc of amber dye. There's an even sloppier blob of red dye over the 19 tick mark, and of orange dye between 19.5 and 20.   Image centered on the aforementioned lower, slighly darker grey panel, and another panel (slightly shorter) below it. The upper panel of these two has seven sockets, two toggle switches, two red lights, two fuses, and two knobs. One knob is larger and nine-pointed, and one is smaller and linear rather than radial in shape. The controls have label strips with a wood-grain texture and white text, and there are metal handles on either side of the panel. The lower panel of the two has eight sockets, four toggle switches, two small red lights, one large orange light, three bright red buttons, and three rectangular assemblies each labeled USEC. These assemblies' upper halves have 3-digit analog displays like a combination lock, and their lower halves have black knobs. They are set to 997, 549, and... either 876.5 or 877.5. These controls have red label strips with white text.   This picture shows the lower panel from the previous one, and (surprise) another taller panel below that. It's got two toggles, four sockets, a very dusty large red light, and a green on/off button. Actually two of those toggles are also on plates labeled "ON OFF". I'm a little confused. There's also a screw on a plate with three white-on-black labels: E.3 below, HIGHER to the left and LOWER to the right, the latter two above sharpied CCW and CW arrows. I guess you needed a screwdriver to use this control. (There have been other such screws on previous control panels I neglected to mention out of befuddlement.) Anyway the rest of the control labels are white on woodgrain again.   Close-up of some controls on the aforementioned lighter grey panel with the two Simpson meters. The left-hand (CHANNEL 1) knob has a 0 - 100 scale on its round base plate, both ends near the bottom, with a red sticker on the panel and plate approximately marking 25. To the left of the knob is that COCK toggle switch, and below the knob and COCK, the fuse, orange light, and other toggle.    Two removed modules, only front plates visible, one leaning atop the other. Each is a long rectangular "INTEGRATOR POWER SUPPLY" with speckled metal finish and a metal handle on each side. They each have a large red (power?) light and an on/off toggle switch. They also have two current meters reading "DC AMPERES", one also labeled with a plus and one with a minus sign. These have linear rather than radial displays, but they are either printed on the edges of rotating discs recessed in the panel or are printed on spools of tape. Each has a smaller red light next to it. There are then two sockets labeled "dB/dt" and ∫Bdt.   A large assembly of control panels, appearing largely bare for its size, white with a dull blue frame diving it into halves vertically. At the top of the frame is a nameplate reading "HORIBA INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED." The left control panel has a large round hole labeled "SAMPLE VENTURI", two small ones labeled "HIGH ALARM" and "LOW ALARM," a metal plate with an octagonal knob and a toggle switch, a piece of paper taped on reading "PROPERTY OF WEMPEC," and a power supply. The right side has a control panel in its top half and a recessed portion in its bottom.   The top right control panel in the assembly. There's a row of colored indicator lights on top, then an on switch, a few toggle switches, a vertical rectangular slot with unclear metallic objects in it, a round Triplet 0-1000 voltmeter, and four horizontal slots exposing sheet metal with a tiled square-split-into-eight-triangles pattern cut into it. Below the panel, the top of a concave area is visible.   The concave interior of the chassis's lower right-hand side. There are a bunch of holes, some of them labeled, and a twisted pair of red and black wires running from a smaller to larger hole. At top right there is a vertical rectangular metal plate with a bunch of colored, labeled sockets.   Close-up of grey Magna-Power Electronics power supply in the left of the assembly, with metal handles on either side, and between them, a power switch, stop and start buttons, DC voltage and current knobs and displays, a bunch of labels for diagnostic lights (i presume, but the lights are not visible off), and a square button labeled "DIS/RESET."   Close-up of Magna-Power Electroics power supply again, but at an angle with its left end closer to the camera   Close-up of 10 indicator lights on white backing, left side closer to the camera: orange, red, green, green, orange, green, orange, green, white, white. They are labeled "AC ON," "PHASE FAULT," "PWR ON," "PUMP ON," and "BUS CONN." and then they get too blurry to read. Below them there's an off switch and some toggle switches   Close-up of the round Triplet voltmeter, measuring "D.C. BUS VOLTS" on a 0-1000 scale. The labeling looks handwritten.  

"i dunno what these all do but they sure look cool" - The Artist