[Radio Wrangler]

Styled to be very trendy in its day, but can only be moved in one dimension. The base will get in the way of things, and those look like ventilation holes on the top, waiting for spilled coffee or flying trimmings from component leads.

The reduced overlap of the sliding joints at full extension mean that it's at its most fragile just when forces are going to be greatest.

Enough style to get it in a style magazine or museum, but not enough function for my workbench.

I'd like to think that by the twenty third or whatever century we might have more effective lighting than this. However, in their universe, they thought that there would only be one computer per spaceship. Though in the very first star trek game (for minicomputers!) it always knew the exact total of how many Klingons there were in each sector - even if it couldn't show you where they were. Shades of Heisenberg?

David