Exploring the beauty of retro electronics (Gallery)

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

(02-21-2018 04:40 AM)Garth Wilson Wrote:  I totally agree. I have said many times that styling, whether it's calculators, cars, stereos, kitchen appliance, whatever, hit its peak about 1980, about the time of the HP-12C shown there, and it has been going downhill ever since. I don't like the modern swoops and swirls and efforts to somehow look "sexy" (whatever that's supposed to mean for a technical product).

I am not so sure. The 1980ies and 1990ies saw some very ugly products, that's certainly true, but things are getting better again. Right now there are some real beautiful man made tings to be admired like the two objects below (a Bombardier C Series, in my eyes the next well proportioned aircraft since the Concorde, and - I know, wrong brand, the latest Ti84plus "Denim". No swoops and swirls, functional, decent coloring.)