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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

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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"

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