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Mario Bellini's TCV 250 for Olivetti

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This 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.

My 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

It is intended for humans who only briefly need to look at the screen, not droid units who look at code all day ..

The Holborn computer from the early 80s had a pretty cool futuristic look https://www.inexhibit.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Holborn...

Beautiful machine and great article, but terrible site. Scrolling taken over by JavaScript, pop-ups, etc.

It never even ended up loading for me, just completely broken by javascript.

It never loaded fully for me.

Just a concept: never produced or sold.

In 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

Compared to the original machine, this looks like one of these memes “what it looks like on the website vs what I have received”

Well, 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.

> some design ideas

"best I can do is a huge ass office printer with a monitor glued on top of rebar"

Looks like a later version of the Honeywell "Kitchen Computer".[1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/2012/11/kitchen-computer/

Archive.ph version which loads promptly: https://archive.ph/jiER0

Could be a cool machine, can't tell, site broken on Firefox.

That is so damn pretty. I love the older machines.

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