Lumon Terminal Pro

[kps]

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.

[nailer]

DG 6503 images: https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/Data_General_6053

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).

[alnwlsn]

Here's a video of one being restored: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bjdrKCmiE0

The keyswitches are foam and foil, and the CRT really is a blue/white color.

[jdeibele]

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine

[xattt]

Thank you for nailing this down.

[joeblubaugh]

I was hoping for a free typeface - that’s a great typeface name.

Anybody know what the Lumon font is?

[jmoisan]

Manifold Extended CF. There are many others: https://youtu.be/aGMcYYCNwRI?si=k5_30MYTvpO7Iw3F

[WorldPeas]

If only they could transplant some of the swag here to the (hopefully) upcoming 50th anniversary Mac

[nasretdinov]

Instructions unclear; Pressed buy now, now watching Severance for the third time in a row

[ndegruchy]

Praise Kier!

I want that keyboard so bad...

[FireBeyond]

You can get part way there...

https://spkeyboards.com/products/sa-macrodata-refinement

[voidwtf]

what’s scary is how ready i was to buy one

[FerretFred]

Came here to say that! Love that design! (BTW autocorrect just corrected "design" to deism" - it must be a sign!)

[tonyedgecombe]

The video linked from that page is interesting, no mention of the Mac Pro or even Mac Studio. The series was edited on Mac mini, iMac and MacBook Pro.

[efficax]

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?

[Clamchop]

The work is mysterious and important.

[fathermarz]

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.

[ender341341]

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.

[novoreorx]

Just an average Cyberdeck, I've seen cooler ones at places like https://cyberdeck.cafe/

[tylerflick]

It’s ironic this page doesn’t render properly with Safari on an iPhone 13.

Edit: in portrait orientation

[Apocryphon]

Definitely beats the Cardiff Electric Giant, at least.

[_7acn]

OK, but DaVinci Resolve is still better :)

[Aaron2222]

They were actually using Avid Media Composer, not Final Cut Pro.

[piyuv]

Lumon: is an evil company employing kids, slaves and holding people hostage against their will

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

[ender341341]

I mean, it's not the terminal that's the problem with Lumon, it's the other things you mentioned like slaves & child labor that are problematic.

Its a cool retro (real) terminal.