PC of the future (as predicted in 1954)

Ganssle group ^ | 12-07-04 | Ganssle

[snopercod]

I always took perverse satisfaction in dividing something by zero on a Monroe calculator then watching as the gears flew every which way.

[Aeronaut]

I still have my Pickett and Eckell.

[TChris]

Actually, it's a museum mock-up of the control room for a nuclear submarine. This makes the large, shiny wheel much more sensible, don't you think?

[TChris]

You can find the related article on Urban Legends here.

[WildTurkey]

mock-up of the control maneuvering room for a nuclear submarine

[TChris]

You're right. I corrected the mistake when I posted the original photo. :-)

[WildTurkey]

This makes the large, shiny wheel much more sensible, don't you think?

Forward and reverse Main Propulsion Turbine Inlet Valves controls. Large = Forward.

[19th LA Inf]

BTW, we did a remodel job at RAND in Santa Monica in the late 50s

I visited RAND a few times in those days in connection with development of a small air to ground nuclear missile. I honestly don't remember the security system, probably because it was pretty typical of most places we went, but I do remember that everyone we saw had a large scale wall map of the LA area with "ground zero" at the LA City Hall, and circles around it showing the levels of damage from something like a 10 megaton blast. I still have the "blast damage calculator", a circular slide rule, that I was given as a RAND souvenir.

[dalereed]

We did a lot of construction in secure military and defense instalations durring WW-2 and after and as far as I can remember outside of RAND and JPL if you had a note pad and a roll of plans under your arm no one would even ask who you were.

Even the Skunk Works at Burbank was less secure than RAND.

[N. Theknow]

LOL! I wonder what the big wheel does?

Mouse?

[Snagglepuss]

The Wheel:
They were way ahead of the curve there. It squeezes out viruses.
/snag

[Robert357]

Thanks, actually #164 nails it with a link to an urban legond site. I thought that wheels looked a little strange.

[Hi Heels]

ahem... still have a monroe....

[fastattacksailor]

The power plant console is from a nuclear submarine

[Red6]

So what exactly was the wheel for?

Red6

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See post #154!

[fastattacksailor]

There are only two types of ships:

"Submarines---and TARGETS!"

[backhoe]

ahem... still have a monroe....

That's very cool- sure wish I had been able to hang on to more of my "stuff" like that. Dern it!

[backhoe]

I always took perverse satisfaction in dividing something by zero on a Monroe calculator then watching as the gears flew every which way.

I remember some operation- it may have been that, but we are talking about close to 40 years back- that made it grind & shift seemingly forever.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Fisrt and last chevy i ever owned

Pulled it out of a feild no floorboards flat tires and a rusted heap of a frame after about a year of playing with it it didnt look half as good as this old poster but i tried dropped in a battery and sprayed the clinders with WD40 turned it over by hand about 3 times and it fired right up ran good until i sold it !

It's the last real chevy i ever owned unless you consider vega's chevy's ? i dont !