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Mario Bellini's TCV 250 for Olivetti
- ThePowerOfFuet 4y agoBeautiful machine and great article, but terrible site. Scrolling taken over by JavaScript, pop-ups, etc.
- hollerith 4y agoJust a concept: never produced or sold.
- adg001 4y agoIn the early 1980s my father had in his office a couple of these Olivetti BCS 2025 [1], which share with the Bellini's TCV 250 some design ideas, such as the metal plane encapsulating the keyboard. [1] http://museo.dagomari.prato.it/singolo.php?cod=149&ord=1 http://museo.dagomari.prato.it/singolo.php?cod=149&ord=1
- kamma4434 4y agoCompared to the original machine, this looks like one of these memes “what it looks like on the website vs what I have received”
- adg001 4y agoWell, this is something that happens pretty much often in a number of verticals. Just think about how cars, even the most sophisticated, look when compared to the prototypes exhibited by the their manufacturers years before at the car shows. Manufacturing is also about costs/margin tradeoffs. That being said, having had the chance to tinker with those machines in the 1980s I can tell you that I owe them, and to my father, very much about my obsession for computer science.
- avereveard 4y ago> some design ideas "best I can do is a huge ass office printer with a monitor glued on top of rebar"
- kjs3 4y agoLooks like a later version of the Honeywell "Kitchen Computer".[1] [1] https://www.wired.com/2012/11/kitchen-computer/ https://www.wired.com/2012/11/kitchen-computer/
- ncr100 4y agoMy neck hurts just looking at the photograph. Twisting one's neck all-day-long to look at the fixed-in-place monitor would lead to bad things, for a human. So ... I must assume this is intended for a non-human. /jk
- aa-jv 4y agoIt is intended for humans who only briefly need to look at the screen, not droid units who look at code all day ..
- kimi 4y agoThis is what happens when you have an architect design something cool. It does look cool and will end up in the MoMA, but you cannot put a sheet of paper or a coffee cup on it, and your neck will break apart from the strain.
- christkv 4y agoThe Holborn computer from the early 80s had a pretty cool futuristic look https://www.inexhibit.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Holborn-9100-09.jpg https://www.inexhibit.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Holborn...
- lavametender 4y agoCould be a cool machine, can't tell, site broken on Firefox.
- bklaasen 4y agoArchive.ph version which loads promptly: https://archive.ph/jiER0 https://archive.ph/jiER0
- helf 4y agoThat is so damn pretty. I love the older machines.