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You have to match the colors as well.

It's a classically-done puzzle with a classic hint. One of the colors is correct, so if you just put in all the shapes that are in front of each console, one core starts spinning. That triggers you to understand that you're part-way there but are missing something.

It's nice when puzzle creators take the time to scaffold their puzzles.

I had to come to the comments, i was looking for the hint, but the shape being the same drab blue made me miss it. i noticed the rings colors, but not the shape

ty!

I've tried few things, even written script to show all possible configurations.

But once, I seen tetris style symbol on sector illuminated by red color.

I remembered symbol and check consoles until found red console, and enter there shape....

BTW just for fun, my perl script:

perl -e 'for ($num = 0; $num <256; $num++) { $width = 8; printf("%*b\n", $width, $num) }'

Did you match colors too?