Posted on 11/01/2013 8:44:22 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
At first glance my favorite part was definitely the floppy disk. But upon a closer look, I think it's the oversized hammer and screwdriver sitting next to the old, boxy computer.
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The huge 1980’s phone.
Gordon Gekko, we found your phone...
I saw the new South Park episode yesterday....I liked it.
It was about government implemented computerized ‘tools’ to make our lives easier, essentially.
IntelliLink in the schools and also that product used in Canadian Healthcare....
At one point, the school counselor (here supposed to be Obama) hires a new employee to work out all the crap IntelliLink caused who looked exactly like Sebaceous....
It was pretty funny, IMO
Is that Jay “Revenge of the Nerds” Carney on the left? LOL
And Obama’s EARS...he’s not gonna like that...Valerie had better double his dosage before he sees this...
I am just really wondering right now who pulled what ‘chit’ what favor or “I owe you big time” on hiring this bitch. I’m guessing it’s a Wookie-connection and he’s not frigging happy about it one bit.
The phone.
Computer nerd with pocket protector, tape repair on glasses.
Perfect.
The price? $6.99. Yikes!
I can still visualize the cover of Obama dressed in his muslim garb and Michelle as a black panther.
I’m surprised they’re not trying to input data using a cassette tape (anybody remember that system from the original Apple II’s)?
Magic is slipping away from the “Magic Negro”.
The Commodore Vic-20/C64 tape drive.
And playing a program tape in the stereo by accident.
Nothing funny about the way this administration is hurting American technology companies with this debacle, and the NSA spying fiasco.
This is a strange amalgam of past computers. A lot of it looks like it predates the IBM PC with ISA/MCA slots. No hint of a mouse, and the keyboard is built into the chassis, making it more like an Apple IIe or Commodore PET/CBM.
No numeric keypad. No visible wires to the monitor. So, what are those cables? One looks like thin Ethernet (also known as 10-Base-2 or just coax). So what are those other wires for? One of them could be either 25 pin RS-232 serial or maybe Centronics/Parallel. An avant garde view would suggest the IEEE-488 (seen often on Osborne luggables). The floppy diskette (most likely a 5.25”) has no write protect notch (unless it is taed over with black tape), and I thought those had a small hole near the center for calibration or something.
My guess is that this unit was aone off of the Intel based IBM semi compatibles, made by an old line company like Sperry or Harris. Or a one of a kind CPM box, like the ones made by Exxon (yes, Exxon made computers).
My favorite part is Obama on a 1980s vintage brick cell phone.
Printer cable
It sort of looks like there are rust stains just below the monitor, as if they dug a long disused computer out of the basement.
(Now how the heck do you punctuate that sentence.)I'll let some English major go for my throat!!
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