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This old terminal hardware is just beautiful. Terribly unergonomic probably, but certainly nice to look at.

• kitd 2y ago
  Liverpool 1 West Ham United 2 I see you ...
• tombert 2y ago
  I definitely like the aesthetic of it. It has a kind of neat "hacker" look to it, like simultaneously "high tech" but also kind of "scrapped together"?
• dcminter 2y ago
  Ergonomics were so-so. Definitely a risk of neck-strain from having the monitor a bit low. The keyboard was pleasant to use but required a lot more pressure than a modern chiclet laptop (I think the zenith of computer keyboards was actually the mid-period IBM Thinkpads well before Lenovo took over). I too think it's pretty, but I come to it from a position of obvious bias. I picked one up cheap second hand in the early 2000s just for fun - but then I sold it a few years later as it took up alot of space in my then rather pokey London flat. If I got the opportunity again I'd probably get one (they're not easy to come by in Sweden afaik) but I'd stress about repairing it if something blew - high voltage stuff terrifies me.
  • Tijdreiziger 2y ago
    As someone who got their Bachelor’s a few years ago, I can assure you there’s still a risk of neck strain, as we spent hours every day staring down at our laptop screens. :)
    • dcminter 2y ago
      My first job out of university was working for a company that did ergonomics and keyboard training for banks. My typing speed is pretty epic but somehow my posture is more piltdown man than finishing school.