[entrox]

The clean visual design of these consoles is just beautiful. It reminds me of the aesthetic of Kubrick's 2001 from the same era.

[TacticalCoder]

> It reminds me of the aesthetic of Kubrick's 2001 from the same era.

AFAIR IBM was involved in the making of 2001... But when they learned that it was about a computer "killing people", they wanted all the IBM logos removed.

[neglesaks]

"HAL" is "IBM" with each literal shifted one step.

[PlunderBunny]

Like something that Dieter Rams would design (makes me wonder if he did have a hand in it).