Welcome back to our laboratory! A few days ago, we went to the Kyiv electronic junk market and, by pure accident, found this incredible thing. This is a vintage control panel from a Soviet mainframe computer, the ES-1050. The panel has almost three hundred signal lights and more than a hundred switches. There's a lot of work ahead, but I believe that once repaired, it will look truly gorgeous.
00:00 – Intro
00:55 – What is this panel?
02:01 – I wish they used LEDs
03:33 – Disassembling
06:42 – Restoration
09:30 – Installing color lenses
11:15 – Wiring and test run!
13:04 – Outro and a question for you
13:51 – Obligatory cat performance
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