Marcin WicharyThis obscure (to me, at least?) Hungarian microcomputer represents the correct ratio between the keyboard and the display.
Via the amazing and seemingly endless https://www.holdcomputers.com/
SnoopJ@mwichary reflection game on point 👌
jimlindstrom@mwichary These look like adorable Pixar creations that should hop up and come to life.
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Sam Burkhard@mwichary I am in love with this design language
PG&E Delenda Est@mwichary @samburkhard those are very computer shaped computers
AccordionBruce
Phil Dennis-Jordan@pmdj @mwichary @samburkhard the sewing machine one is the classical computer shape and we have strayed from God's light by not continuing that design
@samburkhard @pmdj @mwichary There's a narrative here about computing starting with jacquard looms and thus computers are just extremely advanced sewing machines.
Lenore
Chris Silverman 🌻@mwichary @samburkhard I really like the design of the 52600. Sort of a softer version of those Wyse terminals every library had in the 90s.
Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉@mwichary @samburkhard every one of these looks better than any computer made today.
Roel Nieskens@mwichary @samburkhard These are INSANELY sweet looking machines. Unbelievable! 💖
dan 💾@mwichary @samburkhard the retro-futurism here is gorgeous 😍
Dr Ro Smith@mwichary This is pure filth.
Bob Schulties@mwichary The VT-16… doesn’t seem too much of a stretch to see how the iMac G4 would be made. These are great examples, thanks for sharing.
@mwichary for those chasing the retro aesthetic this project repurposes an old super 8 viewer for a classy little terminal
Sebastien 🌍 🇵🇸🇺🇦 
Jason, Human, Average 
@mwichary @samburkhard These photos have given me carpal tunnel. But it was worth it.
John W. Little@mwichary The TPA Quadro is one of the best designs ever.
A. P. Howell@mwichary I love product photos like these.
DJ Adams
Aaron@mwichary Old-school BASIC with the line number-based editor on the screen of the one shaped like a sewing machine! Takes me back to when I was 12 and first discovered programming. Good memories!
BornachThat tpa quadro looks like a @NanoRaptor creation
https://mastodon.online/@mwichary/110143985285413372
If Apple made sewing machines
Andrew Jon Thomson@mwichary I love the strange gap between the monitor and the CPU on the Quattro. I assume that’s where you keep your weed and paraphernalia.
Skip - فریبرز توکلیان@mwichary the Quadro reminds me of a TeleVideo 803 a little
That Compute!@mwichary those computers looks great!:)
Speaking of good design.
Speaking of good design.
Retro Gerry@mwichary
that KFKI TPA Quadro gotta love the design.
KFKI manager : so, you build computer before?
engineer (with 30 years experience in soviet state sewing machine factory) : Da. piece cake.
leyrer@mwichary OMG. NEEEED!
Dan Berlyoung ✅ 🇺🇦@mwichary the Quadro is a glorious machine!
Cabinet 20 🌱 
Dante Scanline@mwichary made some great coffee on that third one back in the day
Massa 👽 Humberto@mwichary I am in love with the ergonomics, that are much better than the TRS80 and the PCs and XTs
mnemonicoverload@mnemonicoverload @mwichary at least two of them have the monitor on top of a console -- and the "tpa quadro" and the "szki pro" have it raised still...
@massa
Those ones are better than the lower ones but still far from ideal as they are at a fixed height. You want to be able to position the top of the monitor at your eye level. Having to shim up the whole computer instead of just the monitor to get it in the right spot is inconvenient at best.
Peter Cohen@mwichary All of these need cameos on Apple TV+'s next season of "Severance."
David Sexton@mwichary I kinda want a TPA Quadro.
HawkWolf@mwichary @NanoRaptor I feel like these have a “1980s crt microcomputer with colorful mechanical keyboard retro photorealistic" vibe
EricMahler@mwichary I want all of these
For whom the Taco Bell tolls@mwichary these are absolutely fabulous
@mwichary I love how the quadro looks like a sewingmachine.
Al Gorithm
AndrewF@mwichary They’re beautiful. I’m reminded of the retro-styled computer terminals in (TV show) Severance.
Þór Sigurðsson@mwichary Ok.... @NanoRaptor not taking the TPA Quadro and turning it into a computerized sowing machine is an opportunity wasted.
Amelia Bellamy-Royds@mwichary The TPA Quadro (AKA "the sewing-machine-shaped one"!) does look absurd, but I bet that cut-out under the monitor was actually useful for holding papers that you were using as reference while you typed.
Hanneke@mwichary @NanoRaptor
I want my food to be warming in that space under #3 — or maybe for my order to have just replicated into existence there 🍲
I want my food to be warming in that space under #3 — or maybe for my order to have just replicated into existence there 🍲
Account: Computers@mwichary VT 340 was legitimately amazing. Also, it wasn't cloned from anywhere. I used it when it was attached to ES-1010 (Videoton R10), which was cloned from Mitra-15.
Chris Chen, Personal Meal Estate Corp@mwichary @NanoRaptor tagging myself I'm the cantilevered boi
André@mwichary
8-bit computer from Robotron in the GDR. I had my first experience with it in 1989/90.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_1715
8-bit computer from Robotron in the GDR. I had my first experience with it in 1989/90.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_1715
Emil "AngryAnt" Johansen@mwichary You sure that Quadro machine is not in fact a Weyland Yutani design?