If you crack the front panel on your iPad, you can either live with it, buy a new one, or fix it. For those with an AppleCare+ or other warranty that covers accidental damage, the choice is obvious.

If you aren’t old enough to remember when computers had front panels, as [Patrick Jackson] found out after he built a replica Altair 8800, their operation can be a bit inscrutable. After figuring it ...

I have been having this issue for quite some time, and I am not 100% positive when it started occurring. The thing is - I do not even have the front panel hooked up! In my Google searches I have come ...

Q: Who do I have to buy lunch for so that somebody standardizes front-panel pins? A: Heh, this one’s a perennial annoyance, isn’t it? The front-panel pin layout on a motherboard varies a lot. Most DIY ...

Recently, a Reddit user discovered a rare RCA Spectra 70/35 computer control panel from 1966 in their family’s old collapsed garage, posting photos of the pre-moon landing mainframe component to the ...