[ale] OT: the home computer of 2004

Jim Philips jimmyc at speedfactory.net
Mon Sep 20 19:25:14 EDT 2004


On Monday 20 September 2004 06:44 pm, William Bagwell wrote:
> On Monday 20 September 2004 06:00 pm, Jim Philips wrote:
> > As envisioned by the Rand Corporation in the 1950's:
> >
> > http://users.net1plus.com/scottm/HomeComputer.jpg
>
> Hate to burst your bubble, but that is from a fark.com "Photo Shop" contest
> just a few weeks ago. The original picture is a (modified for security)
> control panel from a submarine that was recently placed in a museum.
>
> /Makes a cute joke though.
> //Yup, I picked up this bad habit there;-)

Couldn't find it by searching on fark.com (cool site, by the way). But I think 
my explanation is more fun.



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