plugboard
Wired connection matrix
A plugboard is a panel with an array of sockets that can be connected by patch cables to configure electrical circuits.
Early computers and telephone switchboards used plugboards to route signals or modify programs without changing hardware.
The term evokes an era when computing meant physically rewiring connections: The operator reconfigured the plugboard for the new calculation.
Spinning airfoil assemblies
- wiringInstalled electrical conductors
- permutationArrangement in specific order
- settingsAdjustable device parameters
- scramblingMoving clumsily in haste
substitution · codebook · Ultra · Bletchley Park · Alan Turing · codebreakers · cryptanalysis · decipherment
Telephone routing panel
- operatorOne who works machinery
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
- patchingRepairing by covering
- jacksChildren's ball-and-pieces game
sockets · crossbar · trunk line · routing · subscriber · connection · central office · PBX
Installed electrical conductors
- terminalsEnd stations or connectors
- interconnectsJoins separate things together
- breadboardSolderless circuit-building platform
- solderingLow-temp metal fusion
jumper · pin · connector · circuit · configuration · relay · modular · reconfigurable
Made of separable units
- patch cableShort connection cord
- CVCareer credentials document
- gateHinged barrier in fence
- MoogAnalog synthesizer brand
oscillator · filter · envelope · routing · attenuator · configuration · sound design · patching
rotors
Spinning airfoil assemblies
- wiringInstalled electrical conductors
- permutationArrangement in specific order
- settingsAdjustable device parameters
scrambling · substitution · codebook · Ultra · Bletchley Park · Alan Turing · codebreakers · cryptanalysis · decipherment · intercept
switchboard
Telephone routing panel
jacks · sockets · crossbar · trunk line · routing · subscriber · connection · central office · PBX
wiring
Installed electrical conductors
- terminalsEnd stations or connectors
- interconnectsJoins separate things together
- breadboardSolderless circuit-building platform
soldering · jumper · pin · connector · circuit · configuration · relay · modular · reconfigurable · prototype
modular
Made of separable units
- patch cableShort connection cord
- CVCareer credentials document
- gateHinged barrier in fence
Moog · oscillator · filter · envelope · routing · attenuator · configuration · sound design · patching
- codebreaking toolsEnigma machine, cipher key, Colossus, codebook, decryption key
- security hardwaresecurity chip, security token, cipher machine, hardware wallet, cold wallet
- switchboard partspatchboard, circuit panel
- telephonytelephone, telephone network, call, dial tone, phone lines
- Codebreakingcodebreakers, codebreaking, cryptanalysis, cipher, ciphers
- early computersENIAC, Colossus, analog computer
plugboardprinted circuit board
Etched conductive component substrate
PCB · circuit board · integrated circuit · ASIC · microchip
board, plug, plugged, plugging, plugs, unplugged, plugin, replugging