Thursday, January 26, 2006
Big, useless, mine.
After some months of watching this old switchboard just lie around in some corner I was sure nobody would miss it, so I gave it a new home yesterday. I don’t know what to do with it, yet. The big rotary switches and pushbuttons are very solid and give a very obivious haptic and sonic feedback (”cronk!”) when switched, the very opposite of today’s rubber buttons on phones and other gadgets. I love the three lights in the top right corner, they look just like something from a submarine or nuclear power plant.
Click on the image to see some pictures I took of this thing.
Hi – found your site through a trackback on my retrothing blog. I wish you the best of luck getting your new site up and running, and I too have a soft spot for old control panels. Sigh.