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Re: Lumon Terminal Pro

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Post by jmoisan » Thu, Mar 27, 2025, 12:09 PM UTC

joeblubaugh wrote: post #10

I was hoping for a free typeface - that’s a great typeface name. Anybody know what the Lumon font is?

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

Re: Lumon Terminal Pro

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Post by piyuv » Thu, Mar 27, 2025, 1:48 PM UTC

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

Re: Lumon Terminal Pro

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Post by nailer » Thu, Mar 27, 2025, 2:36 PM UTC

kps wrote: post #4

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 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).

Re: Lumon Terminal Pro

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Post by ndegruchy » Thu, Mar 27, 2025, 2:40 PM UTC

FireBeyond wrote: post #7

ndegruchy wrote: post #3

Praise Kier! I want that keyboard so bad...

You can get part way there... https://spkeyboards.com/products/sa-macrodata-refinement

Thanks, adding it to my wishlist!

Re: Lumon Terminal Pro

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Post by tonyedgecombe » Thu, Mar 27, 2025, 3:02 PM UTC

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.

Re: Lumon Terminal Pro

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Post by efficax » Thu, Mar 27, 2025, 4:16 PM UTC

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #15

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.

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?

Re: Lumon Terminal Pro

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Post by alnwlsn » Thu, Mar 27, 2025, 4:42 PM UTC

kps wrote: post #4

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.

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.

Re: Lumon Terminal Pro

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Post by FerretFred » Thu, Mar 27, 2025, 5:07 PM UTC

voidwtf wrote: post #2

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

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

Re: Lumon Terminal Pro

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Post by tylerflick » Thu, Mar 27, 2025, 5:17 PM UTC

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

Edit: in portrait orientation

Re: Lumon Terminal Pro

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Post by Clamchop » Thu, Mar 27, 2025, 6:12 PM UTC

The work is mysterious and important.