[ale] #OT HUMOR: The "home computer of 2004" (as, envisioned circa 1954)...

Charles Shapiro hooterpincher at gmail.com
Tue Oct 16 09:54:35 EDT 2007


Well, it's funny. But it's not a computer. It's actually part of the
controls to a submarine.  You can read the full story
on snopes ( http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp ).

-- CHS

On 10/15/07, Daniel Howard <dhhoward at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> The part I'm LOL over is the part about teletype and Fortran and being
> 'easy to use' (note the line printer in the foreground).
>
> Am I the only one that ever had stress trying to use the printf function
> for more than just simple things, e.g. line printer plotting of Physics
> numerical computation results?
>
> Showing his age in Atlanta,
> Daniel
>
>
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:06:09 -0400
> From: Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com>
> Subject: Re: [ale] #OT HUMOR: The "home computer of 2004" (as
>         envisioned      circa 1954)...
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> > > http://lyst.org/Crap/rand_computer.jpg
>
> Heh. I've seen that picture before, anyone know what the steering wheel
> on the left is for?
>
> -Jim P.
>
>
>
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> Daniel Howard
> President and CEO
> Georgia Open Source Education Foundation
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