Comments on: Home Computer http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/ My Confined Space is an image blog with user submitted pictures of anything and everything, funny, serious or dark. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:13:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: maxcw http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-57054 maxcw Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:55:12 +0000 http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/#comment-57054 I remember when this was the biggest thing that ever happened to Fark I remember when this was the biggest thing that ever happened to Fark

]]> By: oh2ohz http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-56989 oh2ohz Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:27:28 +0000 http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/#comment-56989 here's that link you misplaced. http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1115586&tt=voteresults&ok=1 here’s that link you misplaced.

forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1115586&tt=voteresults&ok=1

]]> By: Hepathos http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-56988 Hepathos Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:24:56 +0000 http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/#comment-56988 Also, how fun the people will have in 100 years into the future, when they see our sci-fi movies :D Also, how fun the people will have in 100 years into the future, when they see our sci-fi movies :D

]]> By: saborlas http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-56981 saborlas Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:59:41 +0000 http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/#comment-56981 Original contest thread <b><a>here</a></b>. Look for <b>Lukket</b>. 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!). 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!).

]]> By: warren http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-56978 warren Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:30:09 +0000 http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/#comment-56978 <blockquote>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.</blockquote> Huh. Looks like I guessed right.

natakamus on August 6th, 2007 4:26 pm
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.

]]> By: warren http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-56977 warren Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:26:13 +0000 http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/#comment-56977 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. 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.

]]> By: natakamus http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-56976 natakamus Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:26:03 +0000 http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/#comment-56976 http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp This is a shopped version of an engineering control panel from a nuclear sub. www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp

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

]]> By: Sticky http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-56969 Sticky Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:14:42 +0000 http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/#comment-56969 What's hilarious is that a 15 dollar calculator has more power than that piece of crap. "Economically unfeasible" my ass. What’s hilarious is that a 15 dollar calculator has more power than that piece of crap. “Economically unfeasible” my ass.

]]> By: egnilk66 http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-56965 egnilk66 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:57:41 +0000 http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/#comment-56965 Also, I'm pretty sure this guy would shit himself if he saw a laptop and what it could do. Also, I’m pretty sure this guy would shit himself if he saw a laptop and what it could do.

]]> By: egnilk66 http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-56964 egnilk66 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:57:13 +0000 http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2007/08/06/home-computer/#comment-56964 I wonder what the big wheel is for...maybe that's the page scroller.... one for up and down, one for left and right. I wonder what the big wheel is for…maybe that’s the page scroller…. one for up and down, one for left and right.

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