[chilepepper]

this is a HOAX -- the printer/console looks like a DECwriter from the 1970's, the dials & annunciators & controls look like the console to a powerplant...

i really like the wheel though: would be great w/ GTA

[tm22721]

This is a HOAX -- the printer/console looks like a DECwriter from the 1970's, the dials & annunciators & controls look like the console to a powerplant.

Not to be picky, but the 2004 doesn't match the rest of the font.

LOL. The 'pajammadeen' exposes yet another forgery.

BUMP

[elli1]

i really like the wheel though: would be great w/ GTA

GTA?

The wheel is great. I don't know what I'd use it for but I want one.

[ovrtaxt]

this is a HOAX -- the printer/console looks like a DECwriter from the 1970's,

So THAT'S the guy who wrote Dan Rather's memo!

[KeyWest]

-this is a HOAX-

agree. Does look like a power plant control station.

In the 50's there would be some analog functions, but dials, not gages. No good reason for wheel. The keyboard does not fit the time nor does the TV.

A better hoax would have been a large, dresser size box with a large vacuum tube on top.

[DaveTesla]

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

[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*

[Enterprise]

Good observation. It would be like showing a 54 Ford with an 8-track.

[RinaseaofDs]

I used to drive icebreakers for a living. RAND built the control system for Lockheed when they built the two Polar Class breakers for the CG in the 1970's.

This looks like 'aft steering' or some other secondary steering console for a ship.

[RadioAstronomer]

i really like the wheel though

This has been circulating at work. LOL! We figure the wheel was added to allow a person to "steer" through the world wide web. :-)

[Socrates1]

Good call. Looks like a control room for some process control, due to the analog gauges.

1957 Vintage Teletype

Reference to Fortran was a anachronism too.

Fortran History

FORTRAN or formula translation, the first high level programming language, was invented by John Backus for IBM, in 1954, and released commercially, in 1957

[todd1]

Now that you mention it I think you are right... This pic was seen by my entire IT department at a huge energy company and no one else noticed what you did... Good eye...

[WildTurkey]

this is a HOAX -- the printer/console looks like a DECwriter from the 1970's, the dials & annunciators & controls look like the console to a powerplant...

The Maneuvering room of a SSN 637 class submarine.

[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?

[fastattacksailor]

The power plant console is from a nuclear submarine