That is a Data General 6053, aka Dasher D2, terminal, with a trackball spliced in place of the number pad. The D2 was introduced in 1977, same year as the Apple II.
DG story is fascinating. Founded in 1968 by ex DEC engineers. Annual sales of 1B in 1984. But then started losing to DEC's own VAX.
VAX is it's own ball of worms - the designers of VMS, the OS, ended up at Microsoft designing Windows NT. But a bunch of VAX customers ended up up installing this weird thing they got on tape from a friend instead of VMS, called 'UNIX' which confused DEC - why would you want a VAX without VMS?
And now half of everyone that's reading this on a desktop is doing so on either iOS, macOS or Android (UNIX or GNU variants) or Windows (Windows NT successor).
Obligatory plug for "The Soul of a New Machine", written by Tracy Kidder about Data General and the drive to introduce a new computer a couple of years after this terminal was introduced.
they also look like they're using studio displays, instead of the pro display xdr, so they must just be doing the cuts here and the HDR color grading somewhere else. maybe they rent an editing room with those $30k+ reference displays to do the color grading?
I wonder who the audience is for the Mac Studio after they showcased some pretty serious workflows from industry leaders using a Mac Mini, Mac, and a MacBook Pro.
I kinda feel like Apple has been trying to say that for a long time, and finally got sick of people saying they abandoned the pro scene and said fuck it here's your massively overpriced "professional" version so you can feel like you're a pro.
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 91.5 ms ] threadI want that keyboard so bad...
https://spkeyboards.com/products/sa-macrodata-refinement
DG story is fascinating. Founded in 1968 by ex DEC engineers. Annual sales of 1B in 1984. But then started losing to DEC's own VAX.
VAX is it's own ball of worms - the designers of VMS, the OS, ended up at Microsoft designing Windows NT. But a bunch of VAX customers ended up up installing this weird thing they got on tape from a friend instead of VMS, called 'UNIX' which confused DEC - why would you want a VAX without VMS?
And now half of everyone that's reading this on a desktop is doing so on either iOS, macOS or Android (UNIX or GNU variants) or Windows (Windows NT successor).
The keyswitches are foam and foil, and the CRT really is a blue/white color.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine
Anybody know what the Lumon font is?
Apple: hey guys here’s the cool terminal from our beloved sci-fi horror show
People: this is fucking cool I want this right now take my money lumo… oops Apple
Its a cool retro (real) terminal.
Edit: in portrait orientation