Front panel switches - what did they do?

[Swift Griggs]

On Tue, 24 May 2016, Brent Hilpert wrote:
> I think one of the most impressive front panels is that of the IBM 360/91:
> 	http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/36091.html

Ha! I was looking at that and I said to myself "This looks like something 
that'd have been at NASA during the Apollo missions on some old newsreel." 
Then @2 seconds later I see one of the photos has a banner in the 
background saying... "NASA". 

-Swift