All my life, I've had a strange fascination with this kind of thing: control rooms, cockpit instrument panels, or any sort of location with lots of of dials, buttons, gauges, switches, and indicators.
Even Microsoft Windows "Control Panel" kind of excited me the first time I saw it.
Now, seeing this posted here makes me wonder if maybe there are others out there who share this particular quirk of mine.
Oh absolutely! I've had the same thing too for as long as I can remember. Aircraft cockpits especially interest me, and I can spend hours looking at physical switches.
I created a subreddit, maybe there are more of us? /r/ControlPanels/
Same - it drove me to spend all the time I could behind sound & lighting consoles through high school and college.
There’s something about live production operations that software engineering - even on the ops/oncall side - doesn’t come close to. I’d seriously consider taking a significant pay cut to sit at a console with a headset and run something in real time.
Now, seeing this posted here makes me wonder if maybe there are others out there who share this particular quirk of mine.