Comment by LysPJ

This story reminded me of the "BeBox" [0] PowerPC computer from the 1990's, which had Blinkenlights on its front bezel.

(It ran the very cool "BeOS" operating system[1], which was eventually ported to Mac, then x86.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS