Mario Bellini's TCV 250 for Olivetti

https://www.core77.com/posts/117998/When-Screens-were-Secondary-Mario-Bellinis-TCV-250-for-Olivetti

by omnibrain • 3 years ago

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ThePowerOfFuet• 3 years ago

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

denkmoon• 3 years ago

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

chesc• 3 years ago

It never loaded fully for me.

hollerith• 3 years ago

Just a concept: never produced or sold.

adg0012• 3 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• 3 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”

avereveard• 3 years ago

some design ideas

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

kjs3• 3 years ago

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

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

ncr100• 3 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• 3 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 ..

kimi• 3 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.

christkv• 3 years ago

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

lavametender• 3 years ago

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

bklaasen• 3 years ago

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

helf• 3 years ago

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

Mario Bellini's TCV 250 for Olivetti

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