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fredoralive on April 20, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Citizen Kubrick (2004)

The device is by IBM, not IIX. The site below has some better pictures of the device's logo (and some other bits of “IBM” hardware), along with lots of pictures of Kubrick's preference for san-serif fonts:

http://typesetinthefuture.com/2001-a-space-odyssey/

acqq on April 20, 2014 [–]

You're right, I haven't seen that even better resolution photo.

http://typesetinthefuture.com/postfiles/2001/2001_ibm_tele_p...

We see even the brand:

   IBM
   TELE PRO

So it is a flat TV set after all, made by IBM.

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