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SUBSIM: The Web's #1 resource for all submarine & naval simulations since 1997
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10-31-14, 07:01 AM
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Chief of the Boat
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A 1954 prediction of what a home computer would look like in 2004
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10-31-14, 09:10 AM
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Navy Seal
 
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 What's with the steering wheels? At one time, Bill Gates stated that there would never be a program that required more than 32 Kbytes of disk space. I just downloaded one 32 gigabytes in size. 
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10-31-14, 09:15 AM
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Hei, he did get the number right, just the measure was wrong! |
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10-31-14, 09:41 AM
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Chief of the Boat
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That wheel is probably the channel changing knob for the dual tv/monitor
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10-31-14, 11:46 AM
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 That, or window scroll wheels. |
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10-31-14, 11:55 AM
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Navy Seal
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Looks more like a one man dive planes station.
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10-31-14, 06:11 PM
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Navy Seal
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I had a conversation with one of those "new tech" whippersnappers a few months back. I told him about the way memory for the old IBMs were made out of frames with a web of wires and magnet loops rather like a spider web. He was aghast at the thought...
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10-31-14, 08:01 PM
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http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp It is a faked picture using this picture as its base. It is from a display of a submarine maneuvering station 
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