Well, the IBM S/360 and earlier had control panels.
This IBM S/370 is still running a 3277 operator console.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HETSEyIPuv0

On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 5:00 AM R.S. <[email protected]> wrote:
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> W dniu 2019-02-02 o 01:42, Tony Harminc pisze:
> > On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 09:29, R.S. <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> IMHO the topic is HMC for zPDT. Unfortunately zPDT does not have HMC in
> >> any form, real or emulated.
> >> It's not mainframe, it's only emulation.
> > No, zPDT *is* a mainframe. It implements a permitted subset of the
> > architecture documented in the Principles of Operation.
> >
> > The HMC is not described in the Principles of Operation. It replaces
> > the knobs, lights, and switches that provided the operator interface
> > on older systems. Some of the *functions* performed by the HMC are
> > architected (and are implemented by zPDT without an HMC), but none of
> > how it works or what the interface looks like. Here is the only
> > description of anything like an HMC in the POO:
>
> No, zPDT is not mainframe. It is emulator, like Hercules.
> Of course there is no single official definition of mainframe - you can
> say the emulator on PC is real machine, for me it's emulator, for some
> sales people big PC server deserves to be named mainframe (despite it
> can run Windows).
>
> Of course there were older IBM mainframes in pre-HMC era or just were
> non-IBM mainframes (ICL, GE...)
>
>
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