OT Computer of the future

BillyBoy wrote on 4/3/2005, 4:56 PM
Somebody sent me the linked photo below. It cracked me up because it was suspose to be from one of those high brow scientific magazines. Anyhow, this is what one scientist thought in the late 50's what the "home computer" circa 2004 would look like. Talk about missing the mark. LOL!

http://www.bb-video.net/HomeComputer.jpg

Comments

wolfbass wrote on 4/3/2005, 6:00 PM
Now that's funny! Nice photo Billy Boy.

Now, I've pretty much pushed the envelope regarding my Video and Music stuff in the house, so there's no way the wife would let me have anything that big!

In this case, smaller is better!
Chienworks wrote on 4/3/2005, 6:08 PM
My wife wanted to know what the "steering wheel" was for. I told her that must be part of the technology that hasn't been invented yet.
SpokeyDoke wrote on 4/3/2005, 6:11 PM
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/1954-computer.html

still funny, though
SpokeyDoke wrote on 4/3/2005, 6:13 PM
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp

this one shows the original photo at the bottom

Yeargh matey!!
wakiyan wrote on 4/3/2005, 6:15 PM
Hey thats what my keyboard looks like ! Get a load of that jog/shuttle wheel .I'm envious .

Jon
MyST wrote on 4/3/2005, 6:58 PM
Other times it's scary how close they come. Remeber the flip-top communicator in Star Trek? Take a walk in a shopping mall now and look around... plenty of people wanting to be "beamed up".

Mario
Grazie wrote on 4/3/2005, 7:46 PM
. . and yes, it also makes it easier and faster to measure the size of the ozone hole too!

Grazie

BillyBoy wrote on 4/3/2005, 8:10 PM
Oh darn... here I thought if I waited to today instead of posting it on April Fool's day I would trick more people. Got to admit that steering wheel kind of thing probably was a bit much from whoever spoofed the original.
rs170a wrote on 4/3/2005, 8:20 PM
BB, the guy in the "computer" picture has a striking resemblance to this guy, don't you think?
:-)

Mike
BillyBoy wrote on 4/3/2005, 8:36 PM
Actually he's a dead ringer for my Uncle Ted, the ambulance chaser... oops, attorney.
BillyBoy wrote on 4/3/2005, 8:53 PM
Since I'm obviously in a silly mood, here's a couple hall of fame class April Fool jokes from the recent past

Value of pi officially changed by Alabama state legislature.

A newsletter called New Mexicans for Science and Reason spoofed an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the 'Biblical value' of 3.0. This was a satire to protest attempts by the same legislature to pass a new law to get around teaching only evolution and also teach bibical creation in public schools.

I laughed at this one, since I'm left-handed

The Left-Handed Whopper

In 1998 Burger King took out a full page advertisement in the national newspaper USA Today announcing it was introducing a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the ad, this lefthanders only whopper while it included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), except that all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. The following day Burger King issued a press release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers across the country had gone into Burger King restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously many others were requesting a 'right handed' whopper.

SpokeyDoke wrote on 4/3/2005, 9:54 PM

that's awesome--if they had left-handed nuggets I'd be all over 'em
-SD

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