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□ Overview
□ Panels A, B and C
□ Panel D
□ Panel E
□ Panel F
□ Panel G
□ Panel H
□ Panel J
□ Panel K
□ Panel L
□ Panel M
□ Panel N
□ Abbreviations

195_Maintenance -- Overview

IBM 360/195 Customer Engineer's Console

IBM 360/195 Customer Engineer's Console
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The photo above shows the 360/195 Console mainly used by the IBM customer engineers but also for operators. The main areas of the console used just be the engineers are areas A to K are shown in the diagram below.

The maintenance system fully checked all data transfers and arithmetic operations displaying the results. It also did a full scan of all registers displaying their state. It was a significant activity of the 360/195 processor using up approximately 20% of the processor system.

The various parts of the engineers and operators area is shown below:

A B C D E F G H J K L M N Operator's Display Console Operator's Control Panel Power Panel Operator Intervention Controls Customer Engineer Controls A to K

A flattened schematic of the console is shown below.

Schematic of the RAL IBM 360/195 Customer Engineers Console

Schematic of the RAL IBM 360/195 Customer Engineers Console
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