Posted on 02/04/2009 8:30:12 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
And it's a big-a$$ wheel. Considering the leverage advantage of a big wheel, they were thinking about putting a lot of torque on something. Maybe it was attached to cables which lifted the old black and white TV hanging on the wall?
Somewhere in the FR Archives I recall a thread where there was much discussion on that picture...I think it turned out to be a control panel at a power Generating Facility...but someone prettied it up and made a story out of it....at least that is what I recall.
I remember the article in the October, 1973 issue of Scientific American in which I first read of Moore's Law. I projected that by 2000 I would be able to afford the mainframe computer I was then using at work!And that it would be small enough to sit on my desk!
Sure enough . . .
Thanks.
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