OT Home Computer 2004

From 1954 popular mechanics magazine

Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model
to illustrate how a "home computer" could look like in the year
2004.

http://home.centurytel.net/cty90143/jpeg/photos/PC1954.JPG

 

Any other navy ex-snipes recognize this? Looks an awful lot like a
throttle station for an old sub or destroyer.

 

Looks just like mine!

 

WOW!
That looks just like mine, except that my printer is bigger, and I don't
have a steering wheel.

Muggs

 

wonder what the laptop would look like?

 

Kind of reminds you of the old sci-fi movies like Young Frankenstein. And
the purpose of the steering wheel is what?? So you can drive while looking
over your shoulder at the monitor on the wall?

WT

 

No, now think a minute. Everything back then was linear, no sideways
available!

WT

 

No No No Wayne it is an early scroll wheel. The large one is up and down
the smaller one is side to side.

Corey

 

It's better than MS Windows?

 

Fun Things to do with chad:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q="...=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=&rnum=1

 

And the river they named for you is in Egypt.
Michael

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Michael Gailey
Artistic CNC Mill, Router and Engraver Programming
3D modeling for Product Design and Development
http://www.microsystemsgeorgia.com/toc.htm

 

The number of things you don't actually know anything
about is quiet large.

Go push a button <G>.

 

What do you mean 1954? Thats actually a picture of Hamei's computer!

Bing

 

Hope this doesn't spoil the fun...
<http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp>

 

Also-rans in the photo competition...
<http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1115586>

 

LOL. I bet it is!

 

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp

 

Had me fooled <G>

http://lukket.dk/cgi-bin/album.pl?photo=pc19542004.jpg

 

What's funnier is that in the fark.com forum that originated this and
other hotos, the rendering artist got special recognition for being
noted by snopes.com as a new urban legend. Now that's an achievement!

Again, here's a link to the photo's origin. Some good stuff. I'm
especially fond of the one featuring keyboardist Keith Emerson.
<http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1115586>