What a HOME COMPUTER could look like !! :-)
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What a HOME COMPUTER could look like !! :-)
RJK wrote:
Picture from 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine (See Caption Below the Picture) Hi The picture is a hoax: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp -- torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page Scripting Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx |
What a HOME COMPUTER could look like !! :-)
I wondered what the wheel was for :-)
....my Uncle in Boca Raton sent me it for a laugh !! regards, Richard "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote in message ... RJK wrote: Picture from 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine (See Caption Below the Picture) Hi The picture is a hoax: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp -- torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page Scripting Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx |
What a HOME COMPUTER could look like !! :-)
....Dad's cousin rather ....
regards, Richard "RJK" wrote in message ... I wondered what the wheel was for :-) ...my Uncle in Boca Raton sent me it for a laugh !! regards, Richard "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote in message ... RJK wrote: Picture from 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine (See Caption Below the Picture) Hi The picture is a hoax: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp -- torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page Scripting Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx |
What a HOME COMPUTER could look like !! :-)
The real thing is much more "science fiction looking" than you can imagine.
The massive main frame that was being used at Oregon State University back in 1974 invoked images of the computer in the movie "Colossus: The Forbin Project". A real classic, by the way, and a must-see sci-fi flick. Row upon row of upright, refrigerator sized units with those big 1" wide tape drives. Stacks of vinyl record sized platters that loaded into what looked like washing machines. A huge impact printer that printed on 24" wide continuous paper. It was all behind three doors of glass and steel, very futuristic looking. You could spot the engineering students by the HP calculators on their belts. It was all very cool. Now you can buy a machine that will run circles around that main frame for about $5000.00 and have it shipped to your door. "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote in message ... RJK wrote: Picture from 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine (See Caption Below the Picture) Hi The picture is a hoax: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp -- torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page Scripting Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx |
What a HOME COMPUTER could look like !! :-)
RJK wrote:
"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote: RJK wrote: Picture from 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine (See Caption Below the Picture) The picture is a hoax: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp I wondered what the wheel was for :-) Maybe a steering wheel for car racing games :-) -- torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page Scripting Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx |
What a HOME COMPUTER could look like !! :-)
"Kevin" wrote in message ... The real thing is much more "science fiction looking" than you can imagine. The massive main frame that was being used at Oregon State University back in 1974 invoked images of the computer in the movie "Colossus: The Forbin Project". A real classic, by the way, and a must-see sci-fi flick. Good movie. Row upon row of upright, refrigerator sized units with those big 1" wide tape drives. You could actually dismount the system tape to mount an extra work tape when doing a tape sort. Stacks of vinyl record sized platters that loaded into what looked like washing machines. Dont forget the "cake dish" cover, with the handle so that you could lower them in and screw them down A huge impact printer that printed on 24" wide continuous paper. You have NEVER lived until you have changed the paper in the middle of a 24-hour print job - 8-part part paper, with 7 interleaved sheets of carbon paper - and later found out that you put it in backwards, with the carbon paper facing the print hammers instead of away. It was all behind three doors of glass and steel, very futuristic looking. Raised floors, lowered ceilings, tons of air-conditioning, NO smoking. You could spot the engineering students by the HP calculators on their belts. It was all very cool. White lab coat. White NYLON lab coat. At least until the pen leaked. Now you can buy a machine that will run circles around that main frame for about $5000.00 and have it shipped to your door. $500, and you can pick it up down the block. "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote in message ... RJK wrote: Picture from 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine (See Caption Below the Picture) Hi The picture is a hoax: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp -- torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page Scripting Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx |
What a HOME COMPUTER could look like !! :-)
RJK wrote:
I wondered what the wheel was for :-) ...my Uncle in Boca Raton sent me it for a laugh !! regards, Richard "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote in message ... RJK wrote: Picture from 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine (See Caption Below the Picture) Hi The picture is a hoax: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp -- torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page Scripting Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx Uhu...what's everybody laughing at? Mine looks exactly like that one. BTW, the wheel is for games. Works great! Frank |
What a HOME COMPUTER could look like !! :-)
I wondered what the wheel was for :-)
Maybe a steering wheel for car racing games :-) Clearly the input device for the graphical user interface. |
What a HOME COMPUTER could look like !! :-)
Go away and don't follow Ron's advice!
-- All the Best, Kelly (MS-MVP) Troubleshooting Windows XP http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com "RJK" wrote in message ... Picture from 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine (See Caption Below the Picture) |
What a HOME COMPUTER could look like !! :-)
Jeez, can I get one and will it run GP4???
ChrisC "Kelly" wrote in message ... Go away and don't follow Ron's advice! -- All the Best, Kelly (MS-MVP) Troubleshooting Windows XP http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com "RJK" wrote in message ... Picture from 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine (See Caption Below the Picture) |
What a HOME COMPUTER could look like !! :-)
Ahhh, you kids;
Watching the dawn's glow filtering through the campus elm trees and the pother of cigarette smoke in the lab as you numbly sort through 250 beige punch cards for the 60th time, trying to find that last syntax error ... swearing at pictures of Kemeny & Kurtzas in your text book, convinced they descended from the survivors of Babel, smelling the ozone and hot plastic wafting from the great humming IBM 1620 Model II ..... those were the days. And then there came Fortran & Cobol..... Oh yeah.... and the holstered Pickett, 24 scale slide rule strapped on your hip like a Buntline Special; a visible testament of your dangerous potential to all the Arts co-eds ..... takes me back. What was the question??? rooster boundary bay, bc |
What a HOME COMPUTER could look like !! :-)
"rooster" wrote in message ... Ahhh, you kids; Watching the dawn's glow filtering through the campus elm trees and the pother of cigarette smoke in the lab as you numbly sort through 250 beige punch cards for the 60th time, trying to find that last syntax error ... swearing at pictures of Kemeny & Kurtzas in your text book, convinced they descended from the survivors of Babel, smelling the ozone and hot plastic wafting from the great humming IBM 1620 Model II ..... those were the days. And then there came Fortran & Cobol..... Oh yeah.... and the holstered Pickett, 24 scale slide rule strapped on your hip like a Buntline Special; a visible testament of your dangerous potential to all the Arts co-eds ..... takes me back. What was the question??? I tlhink it was -- Where did you leave the punched paper tape and the 80-80 plugboard? rooster boundary bay, bc |
What a HOME COMPUTER could look like !! :-)
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