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PC of the future (as predicted in 1954)
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Posted on 12/07/2004 3:23:34 AM PST by Colosis
TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: personalcomputer; timetravel
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To: DaveTesla
No your not. Pushing 50 here! LOL
To: backhoe
it uses a ferrite core memory to recall record locationsWay cool. I had no idea they used core.
To: RadioAstronomer
Are you calling me old....
He He...
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posted on
12/07/2004 5:00:02 AM PST
by
DaveTesla
(You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
To: DaveTesla; RadioAstronomer
So the multi-monitors are coming out of the same CPU? I guess there is a separate video card/port for each one. This doesn't seem like a thing that you could adapt a single-screen tower to handle.
It's intriguing, but now I only use computers for writing/research, so probably that would be a bit of overkill.
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posted on
12/07/2004 5:01:19 AM PST
by
walford
(http://utopia-unmasked.us)
To: OXENinFLA
"Amaaaaazing!"
85
posted on
12/07/2004 5:02:21 AM PST
by
RandallFlagg
(FReepers, Do NOT let the voter fraud stories die!!!! (Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name))
To: Colosis
Debunked...www.snopes.com
:O)
P
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posted on
12/07/2004 5:04:51 AM PST
by
papasmurf
(Kerry..." What are you gonna' believe, me, or your own 2 eyes?"..(Groucho Marx))
To: RadioAstronomer
Pushing 50 here! LOL
Not too far behind you...
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posted on
12/07/2004 5:05:59 AM PST
by
walford
(http://utopia-unmasked.us)
To: walford
To: DaveTesla
To: RadioAstronomer
Yes, it was quite an innovation at the time-- the older systems used a mechanical drum-- the record selector buttons pulled in a solenoid along the drum's circuference, a mechanical arm, linked to the record magazine rotated until it hit the solenoid pin & stopped. After the record played, a little hammer followed and drove the pin back down.
The Seeburg used a keypad, diode matrix, and the core to do the same sort of thing electronically.
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posted on
12/07/2004 5:10:32 AM PST
by
backhoe
(-30-)
To: Colosis
Wow! This is so accurate. It looks like the picture was taken in my former HP office!
To: far sider
It was used to play NASCAR 1954. They only had the Daytona beach scenario in those days.
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posted on
12/07/2004 5:11:30 AM PST
by
xp38
To: Colosis
Is that an add-on steering column for the Lee Petty Championship Racing Simulator Game?
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posted on
12/07/2004 5:11:32 AM PST
by
Hatteras
To: walford
It's intriguing, but now I only use computers for writing/research, so probably that would be a bit of overkill.Most likely!
A 600$ gaming vid card would prob not be your best investment (unless you want to get into gaming or heavy duty graphics.)
To: backhoe
Thanks! Why I love FR. I learn something new every day. :-)
To: Colosis
Just what in the hell is that huge wheel for?
To flush all the spam?
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posted on
12/07/2004 5:15:41 AM PST
by
DCPatriot
(I don't do politically correct very well either.)
To: walford
Windows XP supports multiple monitors.
One card PCI or AGP.
Cards can be had for less then 70 dollars. Graphic
processors are built in so very low load
on cpu.
No overkill.
Once you try it you will never go back.
The inexpensive N-vida card allows you to rotate your LCD screens
90 degrees so you can work on two full page documents
in different programs at once.
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posted on
12/07/2004 5:16:20 AM PST
by
DaveTesla
(You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
To: chilepepper
Good call. Looks like a control room for some process control, due to the analog gauges.
1957 Vintage Teletype
Reference to Fortran was a anachronism too.
Fortran History
FORTRAN or formula translation, the first high level programming language, was invented by John Backus for IBM, in 1954, and released commercially, in 1957
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posted on
12/07/2004 5:16:36 AM PST
by
Socrates1
(Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.)
To: OXENinFLA; glock rocks
Or steering wheels! LOL!! Yes they have .. they just upgraded it to the the NASCAR version :0)
http://www.sgn.cc/racing/nascar_racing_2002_season/review.shtml
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posted on
12/07/2004 5:20:08 AM PST
by
Mo1
(Should be called Oil for Fraud and not Oil for Food)
To: Colosis
On more reason not to trust "experts."
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posted on
12/07/2004 5:20:15 AM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(if a man lives long enough, he gets to see the same thing over and over.)
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