S/360 Front Panels
These IBM System/360 front panel illustrations were inspired by those on John Savard's quadibloc website, but are being recreated to have much more accurate detail (work in progress - those with 'writing' on the rectangular pushbuttons are new). 9020 models have also been added. Although the casual term “front panel” is commonly used today, IBM documentation refers to it as the “system control panel”.
Note that the incorporation of certain features or expansion options may mean a particular actual front panel differs slightly from these illustrations. Also note than some pictures of actual front panels may have incorrectly coloured indicator lamps (round) and/or push buttons (rectangular) or incorrectly labelled rotary switch knobs. Originals were sometimes missing and have been replaced with similar but incorrect substitutes. The (new) illustrations below are correct and agree with the relevant IBM sources.