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I've love to have one of these to interact through! But every time I see these vintage TTYs I simultaneously think "that's so cool, I have to have it" and "I have no space for that on my desk".

I miss when hardware had designs this radical

tbh if y'all sat in front of it I don't think you'd find it that compelling in reality

Not as impressive from seated operator position. But I'd guess, back then, with often multiple people crowded around the too-few terminals, on top of all the unexplored potential of the fascinating new machine, and everyone craving hands on their keyboard, the extra design touches someone cared to make on the chassis are looking extra cool.

On these you’d hit the screen frame that extends to the bottom of the keyboard. Looks much better than it actually works.

OTOH, is love to have a 3278-2 on my desk. I’d even make an effort to make zOS into a daily driver.

This is legit cool. Makes me want to fire up the 3d printer.

If you ignore the white portion, it almost looks like a laptop.