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I used to work on a computer in the Navy that had a display panel that had all the registers displayed (60s vintage, not a single microchip, all discrete components). The main working register has push buttons that would set each bit.

You could program the computer manually by pressing the bits and advancing. Incredibly tedious.

What was interesting was that it had a lamp test function that would test all the bulbs on the panel. A side effect of this is that it would set all the bits in the main register, and crashing whatever was running. Useful if you needed to reboot the computer and couldn't get permission from the higher-ups.
 
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