Home Computer

Posted on August 6, 2007 by iddqd |
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11 Responses to “Home Computer”

  1. natakamus (UID#78) on August 6th, 2007 3:37 pm Reply to this comment

    this is as old as the internets.

  2. egnilk66 (UID#573) on August 6th, 2007 3:57 pm Reply to this comment

    I wonder what the big wheel is for…maybe that’s the page scroller…. one for up and down, one for left and right.

  3. egnilk66 (UID#573) on August 6th, 2007 3:57 pm Reply to this comment

    Also, I’m pretty sure this guy would shit himself if he saw a laptop and what it could do.

  4. Sticky (UID#463) on August 6th, 2007 4:14 pm Reply to this comment

    What’s hilarious is that a 15 dollar calculator has more power than that piece of crap. “Economically unfeasible” my ass.

  5. natakamus (UID#78) on August 6th, 2007 4:26 pm Reply to this comment

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

    This is a shopped version of an engineering control panel from a nuclear sub.

  6. warren (UID#331) on August 6th, 2007 4:26 pm Reply to this comment

    Bogus. The “monitor” is obviously shopped in. No one in the 1950s was thinking of CRT readouts for computers. The line printer is just as certainly a shopped artifact; the styling on it is closer to a ca. 1970s LPT than the kind of hardcopy output computers in that era were using (typically paper tape or cards; however text could be produced, IIRC, using a device that looked a lot like a retrofitted manual typewriter).

    I have half a hunch that what we’re actually seeing here is part of a submarine control panel put into a museum. That would explain the wheels.

  7. warren (UID#331) on August 6th, 2007 4:30 pm Reply to this comment

    natakamus on August 6th, 2007 4:26 pm
    http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp
    This is a shopped version of an engineering control panel from a nuclear sub.

    Huh. Looks like I guessed right.

  8. saborlas (UID#554) on August 6th, 2007 5:59 pm Reply to this comment

    Original contest thread here. Look for Lukket. His entry has fooled at least one major magazine (I forget which one). It took a little more than two weeks before Snopes had to debunk it. Also, take a gander at the other entries (at least, the ones whose image hosts are still retaining said entry!).

  9. Hepathos (UID#719) on August 6th, 2007 6:24 pm Reply to this comment

    Also, how fun the people will have in 100 years into the future, when they see our sci-fi movies :D

  10. oh2ohz (UID#416) on August 6th, 2007 6:27 pm Reply to this comment

    here’s that link you misplaced.

    http://forums.fark.com/cgi/far.....s&ok=1

  11. maxcw (UID#9) on August 7th, 2007 2:55 am Reply to this comment

    I remember when this was the biggest thing that ever happened to Fark

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