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patchboard
noun
A component of a manual telephone switchboard, or of various early data processing equipment, in which circuits are completed with cords on a matrix of connections
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Most people can easily understand a cord patchboard, in which an operator sits and plugs people's wires in where lights shine.
The modular synthesizer which looks a bit like an old-timey telephone patchboard or a mad scientist's idea of a musical instrument was made thoroughly obsolete by the digital synths that came to dominate nineteen-eighties pop music.
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