Ol' Irwin Allen came up with some of the coolest-looking tech on 60s TV. Hands-down.
Posted on 01/13/2014 10:33:13 AM PST by null and void
Irwin Allen was really good with those flashing lights and reel to reel magnetic tapes.
And the electronics had to burn up with lots of sparks and smoke at least once per episode.
They always to manage to transfer Doug and Tony out just in the nick of time, at the end of each show.
The panels with the flashing lights - or at least those on the extreme right of the frame - are from the ANFSQ-7 computer used in the SAGE system.
As the USAF switched to a transistorized of that computer, the vacuum-tube powered units became surplus.
The training center for the programmers who worked on the system was in Santa Monica, which probably had something to do with why the old equipment showed up on movie sets.
The relatively big TV monitor with the Lissajous figure was not part of the Q-7. Neither were the vertical tape drives, although they were used in vast numbers by various military programs of that time.
Ol' Irwin Allen came up with some of the coolest-looking tech on 60s TV. Hands-down.
Did my tax dollars pay for this ‘study?’
How about looking for evidence of Facebook in Shakespeare’s writings? Or Twitter in W.B.Yeats’ writings?
makes as much sense.
Or maybe the Bible contains references to Healthcare.gov.
Ridiculous.
The “future” does not exist. It’s a convenient way of saying “what is going to happen.” You can’t “go” to the future, except by waiting patiently, along with everyone else in the world, for the future to come.
It's almost like he knew that AutoCAD and SolidWorks were coming in the future.
I stopped to look at a guy that looked a lot like me thus avoiding an out of control vehicle. Chance?
That no man, rich or poor, free or bond, shall buy or sell save he that hath the mark...
Wow, I did it!!
I read this article a month ago...
They should be looking for English Blue Police Call Boxes, they’ll find them in all sorts of strange places.
I read it before the Internet even existed.
I first read it two weeks from now.
I’m going to see if I can go back in time about an hour and a half and post something further up the thread.
Lol..
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