My favourite part about these is that if you take these interfaces, anti-alias the fonts and add some colours to the UI widgets, you get a modern-day interface. Minus the animation, so probably faster.<p>40 years of UX "development" and we've eventually come back to where it all started, except slower. Yay.
Even better screens from the UI: <a href="https://imgur.com/a/Jb6jW" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/Jb6jW</a>
Here's a video demonstrating the system: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHIknNa6Eg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHIknNa6Eg</a><p>The whole green retro terminal style display and graphics reminds me of a cool movie prop I'd never thought would exist in real life.
"The 80ies" called and said you can just call them the 80's if you live in the 20th century. Or the 80s if you live in the early 21st. But definitely not the eight-ease-ease,<p>They also did all your coke, bought Enron, and totally dissed that ozone hole thing, dude! Totally wrong.
Would there have been an underlying OS (if there even was one)?<p>It reminds me of the first Buick green screen UI.<p>(1) <a href="https://www.techeblog.com/1986-buick-riviera-touchscreen-graphic-control-center-gcc/?amp" rel="nofollow">https://www.techeblog.com/1986-buick-riviera-touchscreen-gra...</a>
IBM have invented touchscreens with a dedicated pen (I ignore the name) around late '60s, decades ago we have seen <a href="https://youtu.be/7jPKEyM44GU" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/7jPKEyM44GU</a> the point?<p>Well, it's simple: 99% of today high tech came from PUBLIC or at least publicly founded research from after WWII to first '80s ALL THE REST is just popularisation, ingenerisation and added crap to ensure some private party profits carefully designed not to give any power to users. It's about time we came back to a public research for public progress...
I'd pay to have the same exact interface installed in my home today. I imagine using that kind of touchscreen felt like butter compared to a modern Honeywell thermostat.
I am having trouble getting a read on their intention with the aesthetics here. They are DELIBERATELY showcasing 80's era interfaces including green-screen terminals on their corporate home page.<p>Just trying to figure out if this is...<p>a) An ironic put-on of some kind<p>b) Maybe they're a company that continues to service this equipment for a customer base of aged moguls that had this installed in their grand estates 40 years ago, so they decided to get a web-presence (after finding someone to translate their Hypercard deck to a website).<p>b) They're playing it straight and trying to show that this stuff is a "long-term" solution-- with the argument that if this stuff is still running after being installed 40 years ago that, of course, it will be running 40 years from now?<p>On the other hand looking at the fragmented state of home automation right now, one has to wonder if there's a profound lack of vision that was lost in the last 30+ years. Perhaps it just goes to show that a well-thought out system design can last a long time almost regardless of what technology was chosen.<p>The home automation market right now looks like a sketchy hot mess of surveillance capitalism and blatant rent-seeking. If you want something that actually respects you and your household without ulterior motivations and you can't "roll your own" maybe something like this is the ticket for you?