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.
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.
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
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.
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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.
"best I can do is a huge ass office printer with a monitor glued on top of rebar"
[1] https://www.wired.com/2012/11/kitchen-computer/
So ... I must assume this is intended for a non-human. /jk