> Those are good examples, but is it "many" or just those two and maybe > one or two more? For example, Burroughs and IBM mainframes were both > very much "lights and switches" control panel type machines. For > that matter, so were the other CDC products; the 6000 series was a > bit of an outlier I think.
CDC was just an early adopter of the idea that a front panel involving a keyboard and display are more user-friendly and more powerful than a vast number of lights and switches. De
