Front panel switches - what did they do?

[Jon Elson]

On 05/25/2016 12:41 PM, Lawrence Wilkinson wrote:
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> Card (paper) ones did exist! But I suspect they were only 
> for emergency FE use.
> It may be that the mylar ones were not manual-punch 
> friendly, so you could
> make a duplicate to use while you waited for the proper 
> spare to arrive.
>
> There's a photo of a mylar card at 
> http://www.ljw.me.uk/ibm360/photos/
>
The Mylar cards were VERY thin.  I always assumed they were 
attached to a slightly thinner than usual paper card for 
punching, then separated from the paper to put into the ROS 
system.

That picture you linked to is the best photo I've seen of a 
/30 ROS card!

Jon