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Posted on 11/30/2004 5:10:58 PM PST by Fiddlstix
I received this in an Email today. I just thought I'd like to share it with you J Fifty Years ago (1954) This is what the "Great" RAND Corporation (Think Tank) thought a "Home Computer" would look like in the year 2004..............
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: humor
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To: pookie18
Had to be a hoax. I'm staring at that "teletype" thinking, "That's a DEC LA-180... circa 1978." No way that existed in 1954.
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posted on
11/30/2004 8:03:37 PM PST
by
Nick Danger
(Want some wood?)
To: Nik Naym
My money is on this being a modern photo-shop picture. For one thing, the steering wheel is obviously pasted in. LOL -- ironically, the steering wheel is one of the few things that *wasn't* "pasted in".
To: Fiddlstix
Sorry, Urban Legend picture. That is a display of a US submarine control area. The television has been Photoshopped in.
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posted on
11/30/2004 8:12:03 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(Tagline now open, please ring bell.)
To: Fiddlstix
Hmm... I think I have one of these somewhere under the clutter...
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posted on
11/30/2004 8:21:17 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
To: MeekOneGOP
To: Dallas59
Your computer room looks better than the original edition from 1954. I notice that you have a picture of Joan Kerry on your wall, but who is the chick in the top right hand corner?
To: pookie18
Hoax!! Thought it might be, that teletype is an anachronism. It's much more recent than that Sub control room panel.
OTOH, at work we have some pictures of 60's IBM "data processing" equipment. (Outside the room with our server farm in it). It's amazing how much the buttons, two different kinds, and keyboard, look like those used in the consoles on the AWACS. Not too surprising, the basic AWACS console was designed in the late 60s and early 70s at IBM.
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posted on
11/30/2004 9:23:13 PM PST
by
El Gato
(Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
To: sionnsar
I know it's a fake because in the right hand corner you can peer into the other room and see the million Timex-Sinclair 1000 processor array. See the 16K RAM memory modules.
Oh, and that wheel is take the slack out of the cassette tape drive before booting from cassette.
heheheheheheh....
To: SamAdams76
Back in those days of early computing, you had to wear a coat and tie to even get near a computer.Not just a coat and tie, a suit and tie, with a white shirt.
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posted on
11/30/2004 9:27:12 PM PST
by
El Gato
(Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
To: lafroste
Where can I get an MS XP compatible steering wheel??Try this place (there are lots of others)
90
posted on
11/30/2004 9:29:43 PM PST
by
El Gato
(Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
To: al baby
How quaint who said that? Scotty, Chief Engineer of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home (aka "Save the Whales")
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posted on
11/30/2004 9:32:20 PM PST
by
El Gato
(Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
To: Fiddlstix
Actually, this isn't a "home computer" photo at all. The text was appended to the photo of a control panel for submarines. (Notice the large, shiny wheel)
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posted on
11/30/2004 9:37:19 PM PST
by
TChris
(You keep using that word. I don't think it means what yHello, I'm a TAGLINE vir)
To: Fiddlstix
I don't care. I'm still fascinated with the visions that people in the 1930s - 1960s had for today. Some of it is eerie, some of it hilarious. I'd love to collect some of the real images from old science magazines.
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posted on
11/30/2004 9:38:09 PM PST
by
SlowBoat407
(Couldn't you have stopped shooting at us and watched your baby grow instead?)
To: MeekOneGOP
Ha,Ha Click on the picture and you'll hear a song!
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posted on
11/30/2004 9:38:24 PM PST
by
bubbleb
To: Fiddlstix
...more info: It's a full-scale mockup of a nuclear submarine maneuvering room. Here's the link to the related
Urban Legends page
...and the original, undoctored picture:
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posted on
11/30/2004 9:44:10 PM PST
by
TChris
(You keep using that word. I don't think it means what yHello, I'm a TAGLINE vir)
To: Ichneumon
" For one thing, the steering wheel is obviously pasted in.
LOL -- ironically, the steering wheel is one of the few things that *wasn't* "pasted in"."
Yup. I am chuckling too. By the time I posted, there was the shot of the original pix from the sub control console, along with the snopes links and so on.
It's a good thing I can laugh at myself ;)
(at least I was right about it being a paste-up spoof.)
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posted on
11/30/2004 10:15:17 PM PST
by
Nik Naym
To: Fiddlstix
I remember my first 'computer' class - around 1960. We just talked about them. The only time we got to see/touch one was one night we drove to Amarillo to one of the banks that had a mainframe.
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posted on
12/01/2004 1:30:06 AM PST
by
mathluv
(Thank you, America, for protecting my grandchildren's future.)
To: Fiddlstix
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posted on
12/01/2004 1:40:27 AM PST
by
Rastus
To: Fiddlstix
not completely relevant, but since the thread got moved into the computer forum where nobody looks, I thought I'd post it here to help you guys out...
How to kill SPYWARE on your computer
To: MeekOneGOP
My first computer was a PCjr, still own it, no internet. Working with a wireless LAN pulling 2 T-1s today. My how we have progressed. I have more memory also.
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