A View of Home Computing From The Year I Was Born
I haven't blogged for a while. I'm sorry. I've been busy with other things and to be honest, there hasn't been anything truly blogworthy going on.
A friend sent me this picture. The claim is that it is from a 1954 edition of Popular Mechanics. I kind of think it's a forgery (supported by this). Those Rand guys were pretty astute even back then and I can't imagine what they thought a steering wheel on a computer would do. Rewind 9-track tapes? But I think the picture is humorous and post it for your enjoyment.
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That is too neat. I don't think we'd have room for one of those in our den.
I agree it's a forgery. Now, if it only had spinning rims...
It's obviously a fake. There should be those gigantic reels of tape and those blinking lights. I saw them on Plan Nine from Outer Space.
The caption reads "model to illustrate" meaning it is not real. Even the has a console TV hanging on the right
This was solved just today on the Langa list:
"... control panels from the maneuvering room of a nuclear submarine that was built in the 1960's. The specific panel in the photo is from USS James K Polk, SSBN 645, and is on display in the Smithsonian Institute Museum in Washington, DC...."
http://langa.com/newsletters/2004/2004-12-06.htm#10
Doesn't that seem rather spacious for a submarine?