control panel

Computers.

the portion of a computer console that contains manual controls for regulating computer operations.
plugboard(def 2).

Origin of control panel

First recorded in 1920–1925

Then Little Fuzzy jumped up on the chair Lunt had vacated, reached over to the control-panel and switched it on.

Little Fuzzy |Henry Beam Piper
In a trice he broke beyond the circle and darted to the control-panel.

Raiders of the Universes |Donald Wandrei
Guatt Kirbey was securing his control-panel, happy to return to his music.

Space Viking |Henry Beam Piper
His dwindling captor flung another tentacle toward the control-panel to replace the size-regulating lever.

Raiders of the Universes |Donald Wandrei

"In that one control-panel lies all the power that we have mastered," boasted Garboreggg with supreme egotism.

Raiders of the Universes |Donald Wandrei