On 11/30/2010 10:50 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
  Before my time so to speak,  but it's a
program plugboard for some
 accounting machine, perhaps something like the 604 or 607 electronic
 calculators, or mayhaps the CPC (card-programmed-calculator). 
 Thats what I thought as well.  It is telling something what to do. 
Looks like it's for an IBM 402/403 accounting machine. The machine is
identified at the bottom of the plugboard 'sections', visible in one of
the ebay photos.
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