1954 Popular Mechanics' Home Computer (1 Viewer)

[Jay Taylor]

This thread is more humorous than a technical issue about computers so I put it here in the After Hours section. If it has to go to the Computers and HTPC area I understand.

The picture below is from a 1954 issue of Popular Mechanics Magazine. This is what scientists from the RAND Corporation thought a home computer might look like in the year 2004.



I particularly liked this statement:

With Teletype interface and the Fortran language, the computer will be easy to use.

 

[Linda Thompson]

Nope.

Here's the real story on that photo (created for a Fark.com image modification competition):

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

 

[Jay Taylor]

Darn! I was really looking forward to getting one of those giant steering wheels!

 

[Linda Thompson]

I rather like the monitor, so convenient up there on the wall...

Actually, some of the other entries from that contest are still viewable at the link in the snopes article, and a couple of them are at least as funny as this one.

 

[Jay Taylor]

You're right. This one is pretty good: