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My! How Times Change! ROFL!
(I was just entering my 'teen years back then...........)
I remember this kind of Stuff very well.....

Enjoy J

1 posted on 11/30/2004 5:10:58 PM PST by Fiddlstix
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Add an LCD monitor to it, and it's just like mine. Amazing foresight.


2 posted on 11/30/2004 5:12:30 PM PST by G32
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I WANT ONE!


3 posted on 11/30/2004 5:13:05 PM PST by Free_at_last_-2001 (is clinton in jail yet?)
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Having worked with Microsft and Logitech mice for years, that big old Pontiac style steering wheel is looking pretty good to me...


4 posted on 11/30/2004 5:13:06 PM PST by jscd3
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Wow, that's the same computer I'm using right now!


5 posted on 11/30/2004 5:13:35 PM PST by MisterRepublican ("I must go. I must be elusive.")
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Wow.

Just Wow.


6 posted on 11/30/2004 5:14:12 PM PST by SE Mom (God Bless our troops.)
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ROFLMAO!!!!

What's the wheel for I wonder.....

7 posted on 11/30/2004 5:14:37 PM PST by KoRn
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9 posted on 11/30/2004 5:14:55 PM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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I get the TV glued to the wall, and the "teletype interface". I can even imagine all the gauges, but WHAT'S WITH THE STEERING WHEEL ???


10 posted on 11/30/2004 5:15:19 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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A frickin' steering wheel? Steering right into the 21st century (or into the "blue screen of death").
11 posted on 11/30/2004 5:15:24 PM PST by jdm (Stockhausen, Kagel, Xenakis -- world capitals or avant-garde composers?)
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Hoax!!
12 posted on 11/30/2004 5:15:38 PM PST by pookie18 (Clinton Happens!)
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If that screen is actually blue in a color photo, they would have been 1 step closer...


13 posted on 11/30/2004 5:16:02 PM PST by LearnsFromMistakes
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Is that a steering wheel attached to the side there? For driving on the information highway, I presume...


15 posted on 11/30/2004 5:16:32 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel ("Nature abhors a moron."-H.L. Mencken)
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Back in those days of early computing, you had to wear a coat and tie to even get near a computer.


22 posted on 11/30/2004 5:18:31 PM PST by SamAdams76 (Red Sox Win The World Series...And Bush Wins Re-election Too!)
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This is a hoax, guys, and an old one (by internet standards) at that. See here for more information: Does Not COmpute
26 posted on 11/30/2004 5:19:22 PM PST by edg2103 (It's funny, but it's a hoax, guys)
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Forget it. There's no joystick.

-PJ

27 posted on 11/30/2004 5:19:50 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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Oh, this is great. Thank you, Fiddlstix!

VANITY: Modern Computer Technology (1954/2004)


Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest or Texas ping list!. . .don't be shy.


29 posted on 11/30/2004 5:21:01 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP! ©)
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My money is on this being a modern photo-shop picture. For one thing, the steering wheel is obviously pasted in. And why on earth would they put it there? and a console TV stuck to the wall? Nah.

But the kicker: the teletype/printer/keyboard thingy is obviously at least a decade younger than 1954.

This is a joke, hoax, or whatever you want to call it.

Nik
31 posted on 11/30/2004 5:23:12 PM PST by Nik Naym
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I hate to break it to you, but that photo is a HOAX - check snopes.com

The big printer was added to the photo (look closely). The truth is that photo is of a prototype operators panel for our nuclear sub fleet.

Hat to "burst yer bubble", but that's the story.

32 posted on 11/30/2004 5:25:16 PM PST by xcamel (W2: Four more years of Tax Cuts and Dead Terrorists)
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I used to have a book "Giant Machines that Think" by Edmund Berkeley written in 1949. I sold it on eBay a few years back. There was one paragraph I saved as it was so prophetic:

"We can even imagine what new machinery for handling information may some day become: a small pocket instrument that we carry around with us, talking to it whenever we need to, and either storing information in it or receiving information from it."

34 posted on 11/30/2004 5:29:17 PM PST by Fresh Wind (All we are say-y-y-y-ing is give Beast a chance!)
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TO ALL MY CRITICS!

Please Take A Look Again!

As Posted:

TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Click to Add Topic
KEYWORDS: HUMOR; Click to Add Keyword

It WAS Posted as HUMOR!


(Get It?)
J

35 posted on 11/30/2004 5:29:52 PM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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