Posted on 08/17/2016 10:29:43 AM PDT by zeugma
Scientists from the Rand Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a "home computer" could look in the year 2000. However, the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also, scientists readily admit that the computer will require not-yet-invented technology though 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems. With teletype interface and the Fortran language, the computer will be easy to use. 
thanks dude. I can waste more hours of my life. :-)
See my post# 161. I think you have more horsepower than what these guys envisioned in the early 1950's for our time.
Wow! They thought of doing a mouse with coaxial steering wheels! I guess.
But it's still cool.
Back in the early 1960s I built an analog computer from a kit. It used several potentiometers and lots of dials to do calculations. A glorified slide rule. I suppose the pictured steering wheels served the same purpose.
Yeah, got me. Follow the link, it explains the hoax.
And by “fix” you mean...make it so the beads will never move again, right?
in the FWIW department, in my basement in a box full of old PC stuff I still have a full height, 5 meg MFM HDD with the old interface card that drove it.
The box is sitting on top of the box holding my Ohio Scientific C1P.
I have two Televideo 25 CRTs in unopened boxes.
Those are 925s. The original “9” was finger fiddled away.
I use to work in the AF F-15 pilot training program. One of our graphic artists made 3d graphic of two F-15s crossing a ridge line. We would set it up to render on Friday afternoon and it would take all weekend. We can do the same thing at a higher resolution in less than 5 minutes now.
Believe it or not, “Colossal Cave” has been ported to the Android system, and can be found at the Google App store. Looks like they have a version with fancy graphics, but I downloaded and have played the original text version, just as we knew and loved it back in the day.
Also found an Android version of “Leisure Suit Larry” with better graphics and audio than the original, but still the same old Larry!
Two of the great time wasters of all time, IMHO!
I love Fractint! I used it too when it was new.
I wrote my first fractal gnerator on a commodore 64 computer.
post the image you created with it!!
:) I still manage OpenVMS for a defense contractor doing flight testing. OpenVMS on Itanium, rock solid. People don’t realize that most stock markets around the world still use VMS to process your stock transactions :) Been doing this the early 80’s....IVAXMAN :)
Also found an Android version of “Leisure Suit Larry” with better graphics and audio than the original, but still the same old Larry!
Two of the great time wasters of all time, IMHO!
I'm still old school on my cellphone, but if and when I ever upgrade, I would rather not own any product that profits Google or Apple.
As far as i'm concerned, trading with them is just a modern version of "The Rhinemann Exchange." They are evil and I don't want to support them if I can help it, though as time goes on, it becomes increasingly difficult to avoid their influence. They have their fingers in too many pies.
I'll bet somewhere on the internet I can find a copies that can be used on a regular PC.
This is a random pretty one...
This one took 3.5 hours to render.
BTW, at the zoom factor of the bottom image, if the mandlebrot was the size of the universe, that picture would represent something much smaller than an atomic particle.
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