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  1. 1st December 2004, 03:11 PM #1
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    Default 1954 Futurology

    No; this is not my computer, although it seems like it sometimes; it is what Popular Mechanics predicted in 1954 that a home computer would look like in 2004.
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    Wink

    thats not a home computer, its a portable. Its got a steering wheel, so you must be able to drive it to work.
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    I really love the steering wheel.

    What the hell was that for :confused: :confused:
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    The sterring wheel was put there so you could go for "A HARD DRIVE"
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    What vision they had in those days, while mine doesn't actually look the same, the way it acts sometimes it might as well be the same.
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    How about the telly strung up on the wall.

    Was that so you could watch "The Honneymooners" while you were waiting for your program to load ?
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    I especially like the big steering wheel. Helps heaps with navigating from one site to the next. I didn't see a compass anywhere. ??? One could get lost in cycber space.
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    Why did they stick it in a switch gear room?
    If you can do it - Do it! If you can't do it - Try it!
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    I'm such a party pooper

    http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes...ter.asp#photo2

    snopes is an interesting site tho.
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    Quote Originally Posted by craigb
    How about the telly strung up on the wall.

    Was that so you could watch "The Honeymooners" while you were waiting for your program to load ?
    Although separated by time great minds think alike. I have a small tv next to my computer and yes, while the board is loading, I look at it.

    Only trouble is that todays programs are not as good as the Honeymooners.


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    Quote Originally Posted by LineLefty
    I'm such a party pooper

    http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes...ter.asp#photo2

    snopes is an interesting site tho.
    AHHH< but perhaps the article exposing the photo as a hoax, is a hoax, and the original photo is indeed original and not a hoax, therefore proving its unhoaxness, and uncovering the hoax article, claiming the photo is a hoax, as a hoax.
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    Linelefty,

    I should have known it was an urban myth. Thanks for pointing that out.

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    No worries, it's just like that time I woke up in an ice bath with this wound in my side.....................
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    Yes, thinking about it, it must be a hoax. Fortran didn't appear until the early sixties.
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    Well spotted Grunt. I have to admit I didn't read the caption.

    I guess the late 50's early sixties telly strung on the wall is a bit of a give away too.

    It's still a funny pic though.
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