Computers in 2004

[Holy Roller]

Got sent this from a friend but a little google found the truth.

Extract from Popular Mechanics 1954
What does the future really hold

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/images/rand_small.jpg

Scientists from RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a "home computer" could look in the year 2004. However the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems. With teletype interface and the Fortran language, the computer will be easy to use and only


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[SPman]

...and only.........What?

[SPman]

and only....able to destroy the sanity of the average person in 45 secs from boot up, due to its poxy, virus plagued, hardware conflicting, crashing and burning micro-fucking-soft XP operating system?

Yeah - thats it!

[Slipstream]

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/images/rand_small.jpg


Looks like the technology from the Bat Cave :shifty: ;)

[Antallica]

That was faked apparently. So I heard anyway.

[Skunk]

Looks just like my PC... :pinch:

[Warren]

It is a photoshopped image (or possibly GIMP'ed) created this year

[riffer]

It is a photoshopped image (or possibly GIMP'ed) created this year
Yeah, sorry guys - as usual, snopes has the skinny on this particular fake.

Read more here:

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

[pete376403]

The TV up on the wall gave it away.
This is a real computer from the (I think) early 70s, an IBM 360. Probably had as much computing power as your average Casio watch. Note the console at the back with thousands of lights. I think this is what the picture creators were trying to emulate.

[Slingshot]

The TV up on the wall gave it away.
This is a real computer from the (I think) early 70s, an IBM 360. Probably had as much computing power as your average Casio watch. Note the console at the back with thousands of lights. I think this is what the picture creators were trying to emulate.
Look at the skill of that operator...he doesn't even need to look when he pushes the buttons...wow.

[James Deuce]

and only....able to destroy the sanity of the average person in 45 secs from boot up, due to its poxy, virus plagued, hardware conflicting, crashing and burning micro-fucking-soft XP operating system?

Yeah - thats it!


You're old and bitter, aren't you?

Merry Xmas.

[James Deuce]

Yeah, sorry guys - as usual, snopes has the skinny on this particular fake.

Read more here:

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


Thank goodness, because I couldn't find it in any of my 1954 Popular Mechanics.

[What?]

Not real? Bugger - I really liked the use of a helm (presumably as a scroll-wheel)

[bear]

Very entertaining, makes you wonder what is going to go out of the next 50 years.

[Fryin Finn]

dang - I want a steering wheel for my computer - a big stainless steel one say of an americas cup boat. :thud:

[SPORK]

Yeah, I found out it was a fake on the good ol' urban legends site, just a couple of days ago. That is the third time something like this has happened in the last few days :confused:

[Coyote]

Still better than my shite computer :angry2:

[Slingshot]

Yay....just got a good reputation points...thanks slipstream.


And Merry Christmas to everyone!:sunny:

[Holy Roller]

Sorry I misled some of you, When I got the first email I did a google search for the article and found the snopes site. The pix is from that site as the pix sent to me was quite degraded. But it was too much fun to not to post and pull someones leg.
Anyway guys and gals have a great Xmas and catch ya in the New Year. :Pokey:

[Skunk]

Yay....just got a good reputation points...thanks slipstream.How do you find out who gave them to ya?

[Slingshot]

How do you find out who gave them to ya?

Just go to the User CP up the top. Gives you the list.