The Home Computer of 2004, circa 1954

[cowtown]

Check out the caption on this photo from 1954 Popular Mechanics. Times sure change!

[VaSteve]

Not quite....




http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp

[ubiquity0]

LOL.

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Oops, sorry. I inadvertently slipped into speaking fontran.

[concentric]

Look it has a steering wheel for driving games built-in... That must be the first peripheral invented.

[RickM]

Yeah, I was hoping to interface with my home PC using C++ or Assembler. Don't always get what you want.

[cowtown]

Uh-oh. I guess I wanted to believe it was true.

Now I have to tell my boss to stop sending the picture around to the entire organization.

[84porsche]

Originally posted by cowtown
Now I have to tell my boss to stop sending the picture around to the entire organization.

Don't feel bad, I got it from my boss too. Although, its amazing what people believe, let alone how fast it travels.

[Moneyguy1]

Interestingly enough, some of the sci fi writers of the day had it far closer. Other inventions as well. Ever notice how much the communicator on the old Star Trek looks like today's flip phone?

[Z-man]

Originally posted by Moneyguy1
Interestingly enough, some of the sci fi writers of the day had it far closer. Other inventions as well. Ever notice how much the communicator on the old Star Trek looks like today's flip phone?

Don't forget about the PDA's that look like the Star Trek data pad thingys.

How about all the James Bond gadgets that are around now? Have you seen the memory watch? Looks like a simple LCD watch, but it has 1GB of SD memory, and a USB cable built into the band! I have a pen that has a 128MB thumb drive built into the upper half of it.

Then there's the iPod and the BlackBerry devices, camera phones, tons of computer driven stuff in our cars.... the list goes on and on....

Beam me up Scotty!!
-Z.

[Moneyguy1]

Yeah..

I forgot about digital cameras. We have two of them, not including the motion camera. Instant gratification. Glad I don't own stock in a film development or manufacturing company!!

[cowtown]

Originally posted by Moneyguy1
Interestingly enough, some of the sci fi writers of the day had it far closer. Other inventions as well. Ever notice how much the communicator on the old Star Trek looks like today's flip phone?

I'm convinced that Star Trek influenced modern electronics design, not necessarily that the sci-fi writers were prescient. I guess it probably works both ways.

One thing's certain - it's a great time to be a geek.

[Z-man]

Originally posted by cowtown
One thing's certain - it's a great time to be a geek.

That's what I said back in the 70's when I got my first video game: PONG! Now, the card games in my cell phone have more computer power.

For my trip this week to Florida, I packed the following:
- Laptop computer (with aircard cell phone technology that I'm using right now) & some USB flashdrives
- Portable DVD player
- iPod mini
- Game Boy Advance SP with a handful of games (mostly retro archace classics!)
- Fuji 3 megapix digi camera
- I think I brought down some clothes and toiletries too!

Man, I am a major geek!
-Z.