The computer on Keegan McNamara’s desk is like nothing I’ve ever seen before. The machine sits on a light wood table, bathed in the sunlight coming into the second floor of McNamara’s Los Angeles house. McNamara, tall and blonde in jeans and a light khaki Carhartt jacket, walks over to the desk, sits down, and reaches over to hit the power button. Then he pauses. He forgot something. He digs into his pants pocket, pulls out his keys, picks a silver one, sticks it into a cylinder just to the right of the computer’s 8-inch screen, and turns. A light on the left side of the device turns red. Then McNamara reaches up and flips a silver switch just above the keyhole, the lights on the left turn to yellow and then green, and his computer comes to life.
Like I said, this is not your average computer.
This sure is interesting.
Funny thing. I had similar idea something like 15 years ago.
Someone needs to do this with a focus on Haiku
Eh, useability wise for typing / surfing use, the Lenovo X141 is pretty sweet with haiku…. and if you wanted something larger there those exist too long battery life.
If anything more like this were made I feel like it would need to be a BeAI like appliance like a kitchen computer etc… but then today’s kitchen computer is the smartphone.
I love the first line of the story “Computers used to be made out of wood”. Really? Did they use wooden vacuum tubes? I think they are referring to the case, not the computer – otherwise this is fake news.