PC of the future (as predicted in 1954)

Ganssle group ^ | 12-07-04 | Ganssle

[backhoe]

Does anyone around here remember Monroe Calculators? ( purely mechanical add/subtract )

6SN7 multivibrators?

Farnsworth tubes?

Stable elements?

[ovrtaxt]

Yeah, that round plate in my microwave does that.

After I hopped it up a bit... I mean 30 seconds is just TOO LONG.

[DaveTesla]

The tractor feed and paper do kind of give it away..

[ovrtaxt]

6SN7 multivibrators?

Ah, the devolution of the thread begins...

[Lazamataz]

Yeah, that round plate in my microwave does that. After I hopped it up a bit... I mean 30 seconds is just TOO LONG.

Tim Taylor! Good to meet you! I always figgered you'd be a Republican.

[backhoe]

They were the beginning of digital computers- flip-flops, we used to call them.

You can do the same thing with a pair of neon tubes-- it has only two states, on, or off.

[Jitgos]

LOL

[Lazamataz]

6SN7 multivibrators?

Ah, the devolution of the thread begins...

The scary part is, I wasn't the one to do it.

[USCG SimTech]

This photo is a collage' (sp?) with the primary background being the reactor console from a LA class sub prior to their upgrade to now using 4 plasma screens. My daughter's finace' said that this IS his "special sea detail/evolution" station and proceeded to name off what each meter, gauge and switch does after I showed him this picture last week. He did state that with the text blurred out by each component that the picture was UNCLASS.

The DEC serial ASCII printer and bulkhead mounted monitor are Photoshop add-ins. I used to have several of those printers here at work when the ship simulators were installed in '86. Man, they were fast if all you were looking for was ASCII!

[Bottom_Gun]

I have to agree with you...that back panel against the wall is an Engineering control panel, for the reactor, from an older nike sub! It's complete with throttle control valves ( the 2 wheels on the left hand side) *L*

[75thOVI]

I answer that question. The control console is for an S5W submarine reactor plant. The large wheels are the ahead and astern throttles. I bout freaked when I first saw this photo shop. We were sworn to secrecy and all that. However I found the original picture on a museum website where it's on display. Guess it's not so secret anymore,

[backhoe]

The scary part is, I wasn't the one to do it.

Contrary to what some may think of me, I do have an anarchistic, bomb-throwing streak.

[DaveTesla]

We used them to.
Thats a LA36 DECwriter II Terminal.
Terminals for state of the art PDP1178's.

[ovrtaxt]

Yeah, backhoe is a respectable Freeper with all those lists and links. Guys like us, on the other hand, well...

[Lazamataz]

Contrary to what some may think of me, I do have an anarchistic, bomb-throwing streak.

Amd quite contrary to universal opinion about me, occasionally I don't....

[laredo44]

Obviously the wheel is for playing computer games. Also, hope the have more tractor feed paper, looks like that teletype is gonna run out real soon.

[Gamecock]

I've got one of those somewhere....

[ovrtaxt]

Amd quite contrary to universal opinion about me, occasionally I don't....

Right. Subversive, thread hijacking humor is much harder to detect.

[Junior]

Man, this was on Snopes. The machine behind the guy is a diving console from a submarine, and the original photo is from a photograph inside a submarine museum.

[freepatriot32]

Ok I know this is as big as a semi truck.But was it really necessary to put a steering wheel on it?Do they take it out on the highway to air cool the thing or what?:-)