front panel display for a modern PC

As much as I like blinkenlights and rows of switches, I also have an appreciation for the 'blank monolith' or utilitarian cabinet style, for the contrast between the exterior simplicity and the complexity hidden within, imparting an element of mystery. I'm thinking of large old stuff here (perhaps like the 1401 Chuck mentioned), where you open it up and it's filled with rows and rows of little circuit boards, not a modern plain beige box where, once you open it up, you're met by another blank monolith in the form of a VLSI CPU chip. Digressing somewhat, in a fit of nostalgia my list of iconic aspects of computers would go something like: 1. blinkenlight panels 2. spinning open-reel vacuum-column tape drives 3. text in MICR font 4. punch cards 5. plugboards filled with a criss-cross maze of wires But I was a child in the 60's - those items were the popular/public face of computers in those days.