Believe it or not, boards like these looked pretty futuristic when they appeared. Designers were finally being allowed to be a bit creative, once people had finally made the psychological break from identical looking IBM-style boards.
The keys on my Apple //c—which was even older—had unusually flat keys for a desktop:
...but when it came out, it looked like something out of "The Jetsons".
I guess you had to be there. It was a process, though, to get where we are today.