Now one just has to wonder what was the dual steering wheel for ?
What a computer will look like in the future ( from 1954)
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HAHAHA! What the hell...a steering wheel...huh.
My computer at home has one of those.....great for driving games!!!dh girlie said:
Early model T driving games.
damn........I wonder what they thought a laptop would look like
lol... fortran...
Hmmmm.
The color picture above was taken in 2000 at the Smithsonian Institution exhibit "Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War" and depicts:
A full-scale display of a typical nuclear-powered submarine's maneuvering room in which the ship's engineers control the power plant and electrical and steam systems
The color picture above was taken in 2000 at the Smithsonian Institution exhibit "Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War" and depicts:
A full-scale display of a typical nuclear-powered submarine's maneuvering room in which the ship's engineers control the power plant and electrical and steam systems
That picture is a fake.......... 
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I can't access Snopes at work, but I believe this was something that they debunked.
edit: you guys beat me to it
edit: you guys beat me to it
You fokker. You beat me to it by like 8 seconds...... :mumble:Wumpus said:
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yup. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.aspbinary visions said:I can't access Snopes at work, but I believe this was something that they debunked.
edit: you guys beat me to it
some person has the original posted picture posted in a hallway i walk down when coming home from class. i have half an inkling to print out the snopes url and paste it as a note on the pic...
Yeah, one of the guys over at fark.com created it.
More than likely back in 1954 the dictionary defined a 'computer' as a person and not an object...
snopes.com is your friend 
When you look closely at the "teletype interface" it's easy to tell it's photoshopped.
Did Fortran exist in 1954?
Did Fortran exist in 1954?
I think "Did Fortran exist in 1954?" would be considered a dumb question by about nine people on this planet.Toshi said:
I think you're wrong. I'm pretty sure 99.9999% of the population of the planet would think it was a dumb question.I Are Baboon said:
They would promptly follow up with "What the Hell is "Fortran""??
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jacksonpt said:
Don't laugh too loud. I program in fortran every day / most of the day. But not at home unless I'm working from home then I do.
(I'm a computational chemist / materials scientist).
All of our science research types use it frequently.
Except for the "steering wheel". NORC (Naval Ordnance Research Calculator) at Columbia isn't that much different from the picture. My dad got his start in computers there with it and the IBM 650 before going on to the Naval Numerical Weather Project.
Damn, my computer has been exposed.
Better not let the fcc find out...