Bad Joke. Bad Bad Bad! Front panel for a PC?

<but then again, I do have a PC-XT motherboard to waste... It would be <interesting... Is it possible? It would score high on the nerdity <scale... The 8088 would be difficult to make a hardware style front pannel like the PDP-8e or 11/70s had but a software front pannel is doable with a spare parallel port or homebrew IO card. It would have to ahve some software to dump registers to lights based on switchs, load registers from switches (at least 16 of them for data/addresses) also other things like single stepping and single instruction would have to be handled. The other possibility is an embedded ODT like the 11/03, 11/23 or later q-bus PDP-11s have. IT allows memory display, changing locations, halting, running from an address and display/load registers from a terminal(console). Allison