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kiwi_2005
02-05-06, 08:44 PM
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Scientists from the Rand Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a "home computer" could look in the year 2000. However, the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also, scientists readily admit that the computer will require not-yet-invented technology though 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.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c387/mischazion/home_computer.jpg (http://photobucket.com)


On 14 May 1961, the world's first nuclear ramjet engine, "Tory-IIA," mounted on a railroad car, roared to life for just a few seconds. Despite other successful tests the Pentagon, sponsor of the "Pluto project," had second thoughts; Intercontinental ballistic missile technology had proved to be more easily developed than previously thought, reducing the need for such highly capable cruise missiles. On 1 July 1964, seven years and six months after it was born, "Project Pluto" was cancelled.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c387/mischazion/tory_IIA.jpg (http://photobucket.com)



http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/info_and_tech/computer_1950.htm

CCIP
02-05-06, 08:48 PM
:rotfl:

[nearly fooled me there]

kiwi_2005
02-05-06, 08:58 PM
Googling in 1962

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c387/mischazion/google_circa_1960.jpg (http://photobucket.com)

kiwi_2005
02-05-06, 09:01 PM
[nearly fooled me there]

Im not fooling ya its actually what the site says:

http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/info_and_tech/computer_1950.htm

:D

kiwi_2005
02-05-06, 09:03 PM
That big red thing im talking about, they actually built one of those!

:rotfl:

Torplexed
02-05-06, 10:16 PM
A computer with power steering? Probably so you won't have a hard drive. :ping:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c387/mischazion/home_computer.jpg

CCIP
02-05-06, 10:35 PM
A computer with power steering? Probably so you won't have a hard drive. :ping:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c387/mischazion/home_computer.jpg

Imagine how good this thing would be for playing subsims though!

:know: :know: :know: :know: :know: :know:

Torplexed
02-05-06, 10:43 PM
Yeah! With a wheel like that you could probably flood tanks in a jiffy. Plus you got all yer lovely guages on the face of the thing. ;)

sonar732
02-05-06, 10:58 PM
Looks like the manuvering room to me. :hmm:

CCIP
02-05-06, 11:20 PM
It is!

See the linked page from the original post :P