Control panel

• Control panel (engineering)
  Control panel (engineering)
  A control panel is a flat, often vertical, area where control or monitoring instruments are displayed.They are found in places such as nuclear power plants, ships, aircraft and mainframe computers.-See also:* Graphical user interface...
  
  : A flat, often vertical, area where control instrumentation is mounted.
• Control panel (computer)
  Control panel (computer)
  Many computer user interfaces use a control panel metaphor to give the user control of software and hardware features.-Computer History:The term control panel was used for the plugboards in unit record equipment and early computers such as the Altair 8800...
  
  : A metaphor in software
• An operating system application to modify system settings
  • Control panel (Mac OS)
    Control panel (Mac OS)
    A control panel under the Mac OS is a small application which enabled the user to modify software and hardware settings such as the sound volume and desktop pattern. Control panels differ from extensions in that they allow the user to specify options, whereas extensions provide the user with no...
    
    
  • Control panel (web hosting)
    Control panel (Web hosting)
    A Control panel in web hosting refers to the interface provided by the hosting company for the maintenance and monitoring of the hosted website.Some of the commonly available modules in most control panels:* Access to server logs....
    
    
  • Control Panel (Windows)
    Control Panel (Windows)
    The Control Panel is a part of the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface which allows users to view and manipulate basic system settings and controls via applets, such as adding hardware, adding and removing software, controlling user accounts, and changing accessibility options...
    
    
• Control panel (computer)
  Control panel (computer)
  Many computer user interfaces use a control panel metaphor to give the user control of software and hardware features.-Computer History:The term control panel was used for the plugboards in unit record equipment and early computers such as the Altair 8800...
  
  : Used to direct the operation of unit record equipment
  Unit record equipment
  Before the advent of electronic computers, data processing was performed using electromechanical devices called unit record equipment, electric accounting machines or tabulating machines. Unit record machines were as ubiquitous in industry and government in the first half of the twentieth century...
  
  
• Control panel (computer)
  Control panel (computer)
  Many computer user interfaces use a control panel metaphor to give the user control of software and hardware features.-Computer History:The term control panel was used for the plugboards in unit record equipment and early computers such as the Altair 8800...
  
  : Used to program some early computers

See also

• Plug-board: Used for some cipher equipment
• Telephone switchboard
  Telephone switchboard
  A switchboard was a device used to connect a group of telephones manually to one another or to an outside connection, within and between telephone exchanges or private branch exchanges . The user was typically known as an operator...
  
  : A manual exchange
• Patch panel
  Patch panel
  A patch panel or patch bay is a panel, typically rackmounted, that houses cable connections. One typically shorter patch cable will plug into the front side, whereas the back holds the connection of a much longer and more permanent cable...