Torgeir Bakken (MVP) wrote:

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



An additional dead give-away in the captioning is that Fortran I was
developed between 1954-57 from scratch and it would not have been
available in 1954.

Steve