I would appreciate some extra markings on the keycaps for chords and numbers, and a sans-serif font, but this looks awesome as it is.

The GB10 workstations are not that competitive in price with M5 MacBooks and the Mac Studio unless you really need CUDA.

I hope there will be an M5 Ultra at some point, but the geometry of the M5 Pro and Max don’t make it obvious (unless there is an wide interconnect on the other shore of the chip).

Shorter displays end up making programs more modular with shorter functions.

I always encourage my fellow Python developers to stick to 80 columns for readability.

Because it was annoying to flip the disk in the middle of the thing.

When respectfully handling them out of the box, I always stuck my index finger in the central hole and the thumb on the border. I have large hands but I rarely held them by the borders.

> But why were punch cards that size?

Something related to the width of a two-horse Roman carriage… Not sure ;-)

I wonder what the knob on the side was for. Vertical position seems absurd.

That’s also a very large screen compared to how much text it’s displaying. The 2260 was a very odd contraption.

The keyboard was particularly insane.

I’d make it my daily driver ergonomics be damned.

Though I’d probably go with an IBM 3278 or 3290 for practicality.

They are correct of course.

> Like I need another big project :-)

You know you want it.

> So there was no reason to buy a Datamaster

It did use a screen font closer to the 3270 series. That is a big pro ;-)

IBM also was studying home computers, and was talking to Atari. There are other gorgeous design studies in “ Delete - a Design History of Computer Vaporware”, a lovely book. I want to 3D print half of those designs.