alt.hn

3/26/2025 at 7:06:02 PM

Lumon Terminal Pro

 https://www.apple.com/mac/lumon-terminal-pro/

by jervant

3/27/2025 at 1:03:17 AM

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.

by kps

3/27/2025 at 2:36:14 PM

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).

by nailer

3/30/2025 at 5:16:43 PM

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

by jdeibele

3/27/2025 at 6:51:10 PM

Thank you for nailing this down.

by xattt

3/27/2025 at 10:34:32 AM

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

Anybody know what the Lumon font is?

by joeblubaugh

3/27/2025 at 2:10:09 AM

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

by WorldPeas

3/27/2025 at 7:41:01 AM

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

by nasretdinov

3/27/2025 at 12:44:26 AM

Praise Kier!

I want that keyboard so bad...

by ndegruchy

3/27/2025 at 2:55:39 AM

You can get part way there...

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

by FireBeyond

3/27/2025 at 11:31:55 PM

Please try to enjoy each key equally and not show preference for any over the other.

by dialup_sounds

3/27/2025 at 2:40:04 PM

Thanks, adding it to my wishlist!

by ndegruchy

3/27/2025 at 12:33:12 AM

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

by voidwtf

3/27/2025 at 5:07:49 PM

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

by FerretFred

3/27/2025 at 3:02:48 PM

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.

by tonyedgecombe

3/27/2025 at 4:16:28 PM

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?

by efficax

3/27/2025 at 6:12:17 PM

The work is mysterious and important.

by Clamchop

3/28/2025 at 7:18:41 AM

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.

by fathermarz

3/28/2025 at 7:16:38 PM

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.

by ender341341

3/27/2025 at 1:28:12 AM

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

by novoreorx

3/27/2025 at 5:17:26 PM

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

Edit: in portrait orientation

by tylerflick

3/27/2025 at 6:25:29 PM

Definitely beats the Cardiff Electric Giant, at least.

by Apocryphon

3/27/2025 at 10:12:13 AM

OK, but DaVinci Resolve is still better :)

by MaxGripe

3/28/2025 at 8:32:04 AM

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

by Aaron2222

3/27/2025 at 1:48:02 PM

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

by piyuv

3/28/2025 at 7:31:56 PM

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.

by ender341341