![]() I have a strong hunch it's Hi-Tek High Profile, though the wiki doesn't list it. The profile looks uniform across the rows. It would be right at home on a retro mechanical keyboard of the 2020's. I can see why the film's creative team picked it. It's got a nice, dark 3-tone color scheme. Here we can see the keyboard from another angle. Also, "ADM" stood for "American Dream Machine"? LOL. We can even see in page 3 of the brochure what those special keys might be intended to do. Here we see one of the most iconic shots in cinema: Bowman just survived HAL's attempt to murder him, and now he's floating into the eerily red and white room full of HAL's translucent holographic memory units. Look at this chonker of a mechanical keyboard: It's full of fascinating and oddball 1970's and 1980's mechanicals. This wasn't the only time filmmakers added a mechanical keyboard when they made the sequel to the iconic 2001. (By the way, SAL 9000 was voiced by an uncredited Candice Bergen, in 2010.) Here's SAL's console from yet another angle. It may not be the most useful appendage to a talking computer, but it's fun, if enigmatic, for a keyboard spotter. 2010 at least predicted the standing desk and ergonomics craze. The keycaps look spherical, and there's a pleasing concavity to the whole construction. Probably this is custom-made, or does anyone recognize this beast? I see six rows of keys on center, another two rows of function keys above, and another two blocks of function keys, one on either side. And where there used to be a big beautiful upward-facing display, we now have. They added some mysterious white donut shapes here and there. They used different buttons and switches (which didn't match those beautiful translucent square buttons). When they recreated HAL (and his twin SAL) for the sequel, the filmmakers didn't copy it perfectly. Now look back again at the 9000 series of 2010 (released in 1984). In 2010, the SAL 9000 (HAL's twin) has a mechanical keyboard front and center (click to enlarge): But the sequel stuck a mechanical keyboard on the most famous computer in cinema, HAL 9000! Let's take a look. 2010 went to enormous lengths to rebuild lookalikes for Kubrick's famous sets from 2001. His design language is much more influenced by the 1970's and 1980's, and therefore it has lots of interesting keyboards! 2010 was designed by the legendary futurist Syd Mead, no slouch at all, but it didn't take the same crazy creative risks. The result is a film that looks less dated than science fiction movies made decades later – including, its own sequel, 2010 (released in 1984). This movie even depicted tablet computing, famously providing prior art to disprove claims that Apple had invented the idea decades later. Knowing that keyboards wouldn't make any sense on a computer that could think and talk, HAL 9000 had none. Normally, science fiction films use present day computers to depict computers of the future, so that audiences understand they're seeing a computer, and won't become "confused." But Stanley Kubrick (director of 2001) did something different: he just thought about what computers would be like in 30 years, and put that on screen (whether it would be confusing or not).Ĭorrectly predicting 30 years of computer graphics progress, he had animators hand-draw photographic quality computer displays. It's still difficult to fathom that the film came out in 1968. The special effects and production design of 2001 are legendary, of course.
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