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Trammell Hudson
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donut :alpine: :xfce: :clj:

@th @kjhealy

ahhh that CM-2

That right there is how we rebuild the Torment Nexus

From the hit book "Don't Rebuild the Torment Nexus"

but it looks so cool Imma do it anyway

24 Dec 2023 at 21:00 | Open on fosstodon.org
rl_dane

@wholesomedonut @th @kjhealy

Dang, from the looks of it, I guessed the CM-2 was from the early 2000s or late 90s at earliest. WAY ahead of its time, design-wise.

24 Dec 2023 at 21:08 | Open on alpha.polymaths.social
Inhabitant of Carcosa :emacs:
rl_dane

@th @kjhealy

I'm somewhat glad that Olivetti died out before they could be transformed into yet another soulless-black-slab manufacturer.

24 Dec 2023 at 21:09 | Open on alpha.polymaths.social
nil :demisexual_flag: (U) [!].7z

@th last one reminds me of the ME controller from Applied Energistics 2

25 Dec 2023 at 3:39 | Open on furry.engineer
Magnus Ahltorp

@nil @th We had a Connection Machine chassis in our corridor as an art object, including the bar counter shaped cabinet.

25 Dec 2023 at 23:13 | Open on mastodon.nu
vxo

@th @kjhealy WOW. What is that machine with the big pleasantly lavender o r b ?

25 Dec 2023 at 13:51 | Open on digipres.club
dpflug

@vxo
The caption says it's an oliveti terminal. Striking, isn't it?
@th @kjhealy

25 Dec 2023 at 13:57 | Open on hachyderm.io
vxo

@dpflug @th @kjhealy yes! I missed the caption... at first I thought that was a pointing device

25 Dec 2023 at 14:05 | Open on digipres.club
BensGreenGamingAc

@vxo @th @kjhealy That’s the monitor! Imagine the neck strain!

25 Dec 2023 at 14:38 | Open on mastodon.green
vxo

@green_bens @th @kjhealy yeah, and I thought driving our stupid GMC Terrain at work caused weird neck and shoulder strain lol

I swear, that thing has the most murderously terrible ergonomics

25 Dec 2023 at 14:44 | Open on digipres.club
myrmepropagandist

@th @kjhealy Make the future feel like the future with design— my soul yearns.

25 Dec 2023 at 13:54 | Open on sauropods.win
DELETED

@th @kjhealy The last one reminds me of WOPR from wargames :blobcatpaw:

25 Dec 2023 at 13:56 | Open on beige.party
llewelly

@th @kjhealy
then came the Invasion of Boring Machines

25 Dec 2023 at 13:56 | Open on sauropods.win
janusfox 🍅

@th @kjhealy I can't tell if this is AI generated or not! :D

25 Dec 2023 at 14:08 | Open on animal.business
Joshua A.C. Newman (he/they)

@janusfox @th @kjhealy@mastodon.social
The first is a police communicator.
The second is a 70s French Minitel.
The third is an Olivetti I’ve never seen. I bet it’s a non-production design. It’s beautiful like all their shit.
The last is a Thinking Machine from the 90s.

26 Dec 2023 at 1:51 | Open on hackers.town
Casey Jennings

@th @kjhealy
I almost bought a Next just for the look
great photos

25 Dec 2023 at 14:13 | Open on sfba.social
ionizedGirl

@th @kjhealy posting the connection machine isn't fair

25 Dec 2023 at 14:22 | Open on toot.cat
llewelly

@th @kjhealy
yeah ... although, I'm sure that to people who aren't either goths or computer nerds, the cm-2 (4th pic) looks extremely ominous and threatening; just think how that look has been used in various movies and video games.

25 Dec 2023 at 14:37 | Open on sauropods.win
Dave Fischer
Alexander Dyas
Montgomery Gator

@th @kjhealy Three of those are terminals, so you could totally still use them today.

Heck, hide a pi zero w inside them and you can do some modern retro computing!

The other machine though? NSF NCAR has an archive footage of one running and it's as rad as you think! youtu.be/SZ1RcNxiNX8?t=202

25 Dec 2023 at 17:02 | Open on fouroclockfarms.club
Dr.Nick
binchicken

@th @kjhealy need more orb in our computers. bring back orb

25 Dec 2023 at 22:36 | Open on theblower.au
kæt

@th @kjhealy That Motorola 9100T looks like a great writing computer, actually. Proper keyboard, clear text, distraction-free, sensible number of words-per-line. Would probably beat most "electron" based text editors into a cocked hat, anyway, 😄 .

25 Dec 2023 at 22:38 | Open on tech.lgbt
Joshua A.C. Newman (he/they)

@th @kjhealy@mastodon.social
The cyberdeck scene is making this happen.

26 Dec 2023 at 1:51 | Open on hackers.town
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