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#234068 - 20/09/2004 12:22 great image
mschrag pooh-bah Registered: 09/09/2000 Posts: 2303 Loc: Richmond, VA	http://manalang.com/wp-content/HomeComputer.jpg
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#234069 - 20/09/2004 12:23 Re: great image [Re: mschrag]
SE_Sport_Driver carpal tunnel Registered: 05/01/2001 Posts: 4903 Loc: Detroit, MI USA	403 Forbidden _________________________ Brad B.
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#234070 - 20/09/2004 12:24 Re: great image [Re: SE_Sport_Driver]
Daria carpal tunnel Registered: 24/01/2002 Posts: 3937 Loc: Providence, RI	Quote: 403 Forbidden Copy and paste the URL instead of clicking, the external referrer goes away, and it works.
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#234071 - 20/09/2004 12:24 Re: great image [Re: SE_Sport_Driver]
mschrag pooh-bah Registered: 09/09/2000 Posts: 2303 Loc: Richmond, VA	maybe they don't like the direct link or something? Here's the page it came from: http://manalang.com/archives/2004/09/19/the-home-computer-of-2004/
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#234072 - 20/09/2004 12:28 Re: great image [Re: mschrag]
SE_Sport_Driver carpal tunnel Registered: 05/01/2001 Posts: 4903 Loc: Detroit, MI USA	I love the stearing wheel! _________________________ Brad B.
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#234073 - 20/09/2004 12:29 Re: great image [Re: mschrag]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3996 Loc: Manchester UK	Mmm, fortran. But why does it look like control room of a nuclear power station? and why on earth is there a steering wheel? _________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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#234074 - 20/09/2004 12:29 Re: great image [Re: SE_Sport_Driver]
mschrag pooh-bah Registered: 09/09/2000 Posts: 2303 Loc: Richmond, VA	Yeah I think the captain's wheel is my favorite part too ... What in the world is that supposed to control?
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#234075 - 20/09/2004 13:11 Re: great image [Re: mschrag]
tonyc carpal tunnel Registered: 27/06/1999 Posts: 7058 Loc: Pittsburgh, PA	Quote: Yeah I think the captain's wheel is my favorite part too ... What in the world is that supposed to control? "I'll turn this program around right now if you keep misbehaving!" _________________________ - Tony C my empeg stuff
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#234076 - 20/09/2004 13:16 Re: great image [Re: mschrag]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31604 Loc: Seattle, WA	Something about the picture and the attached text doesn't ring true to me. I'm betting it's constructed, perhaps as part of some kind of an "Onion"-style joke. Perhaps from a print publication in the style of National Lampoon... _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#234077 - 20/09/2004 13:42 Re: great image [Re: tfabris]
mschrag pooh-bah Registered: 09/09/2000 Posts: 2303 Loc: Richmond, VA	The more I look at it the more I think you're right ... If you look at the printer on top fo the stand in the front, the printer appears to be at a slightly different angle than the stand it's sitting on. That and there's a puff of smoke coming from the fence on the grassy knoll in the background ...
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#234078 - 20/09/2004 13:49 Re: great image [Re: mschrag]
Dignan carpal tunnel Registered: 08/03/2000 Posts: 12345 Loc: Sterling, VA	Quote: The more I look at it the more I think you're right ... If you look at the printer on top fo the stand in the front, the printer appears to be at a slightly different angle than the stand it's sitting on. That and there's a puff of smoke coming from the fence on the grassy knoll in the background ... Most of it looks fabricated (at least to me it does). To me it looks like the only things that were in the original picture are the man and the main part of the machine. It looks to me like the wheel, "monitor" (which looks like a TV from a 50's advertisement), and the printer and stand are all fake. Come to think of it, that wheel could be real. Is it possible that the bulk of the "computer" is part of a submarine? It's still funny, but if it is fake, I'm sure there are real examples of this type...just probably not with a steering wheel Edited by DiGNAN17 (20/09/2004 13:50) _________________________ Matt
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#234079 - 20/09/2004 13:55 Re: great image [Re: Dignan]
andy carpal tunnel Registered: 10/06/1999 Posts: 5916 Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK	It is from a sub: http://home.att.net/~jeff1_satobserve/photo17.htm Edited by andy (20/09/2004 13:56) _________________________ Remind me to change my signature to something more interesting someday
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#234080 - 20/09/2004 13:57 Re: great image [Re: tfabris]
drakino carpal tunnel Registered: 08/06/1999 Posts: 7868	The big proof is the photo has technology that didn't exist in 1954. The keyboard/printer looks to be a DECwriter II, not released until 1974. The lab here still has a working one.
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#234081 - 20/09/2004 14:32 Re: great image [Re: andy]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31604 Loc: Seattle, WA	What I want to know is how Andy found a photo of the exact same museum exhibit, yet taken from a slightly different angle. And found it so quickly. Amazing. Your Google-fu is strong, young one. _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#234082 - 20/09/2004 14:42 Re: great image [Re: tfabris]
ninti old hand Registered: 28/12/2001 Posts: 868 Loc: Los Angeles	Or maybe he just read the comments on the original manalang page and saw the link to the picture. _________________________ Ninti - MK IIa 60GB Smoke, 30GB, 10GB
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#234083 - 20/09/2004 15:05 Re: great image [Re: ninti]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31604 Loc: Seattle, WA	Curses, I didn't even think to look at the parent page. _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#234084 - 20/09/2004 15:22 Re: great image [Re: ninti]
andy carpal tunnel Registered: 10/06/1999 Posts: 5916 Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK	Quote: Or maybe he just read the comments on the original manalang page and saw the link to the picture. Spoil-sport... Finding it via google would have been most impressive. _________________________ Remind me to change my signature to something more interesting someday
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#234085 - 21/09/2004 00:34 Re: great image [Re: mschrag]
gbeer carpal tunnel Registered: 17/12/2000 Posts: 2665 Loc: Manteca, California	Quote: Yeah I think the captain's wheel is my favorite part too ... What in the world is that supposed to control? Obviously they anticipated the release of "Fast an Furious". _________________________ Glenn
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