Watching the NASA site today as the ISS astronauts prepare to come home, I was struck by how the style of the mission control room has changed since the days of the Apollo flights. All those boxy consoles filled with CRT's and covered in knobs, buttons and switches confined to the gashbin !! And paper everywhere ....
I have a few software defined radios all controlled from the screen but have found myself recently mapping some of those on screen controls (tuners and the like) to external boxes with knobs that I can play with.
