Reviving the AT&T Sceptre

I don’t know when I first became aware of the AT&T Sceptre. It was several years ago; I think someone posted a photo of one somewhere and I became instantly mesmerized by the weird little beige box. I always liked the design language of the basic set-top-box with black bezel and an iconic “AT&T” logo. It reminded me of AT&T’s much older Dataphone line of modems (the Dataphone II, or Dataphone 300…