kimi 2 years ago

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.

ncr100 2 years ago

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

  • aa-jv 2 years ago

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

ThePowerOfFuet 2 years ago

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

  • denkmoon 2 years ago

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

  • chesc 2 years ago

    It never loaded fully for me.

hollerith 2 years ago

Just a concept: never produced or sold.

  • adg001 2 years ago

    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

    • kamma4434 2 years ago

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

      • adg001 2 years ago

        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.

    • avereveard 2 years ago

      > some design ideas

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

lavametender 2 years ago

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

helf 2 years ago

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