Sweet! Check out this year 2004 computer!

[Brutuskend]

I don't see the problem, that's what mines looks like, doesn't yours?

 

[PanzerIV]

Originally posted by: flot
Thanks to google:

Update on the "Home Computer" picture: The photograph is apparently a Photoshopped hoax. Reader Mike Jaeger pointed out,

That is the control panel from an old naval nuclear reactor. On the far right is the EPCP (electric plant control panel) where the electrical operator on watch ("EO") controls power flows and breaker positions (notice the schematic laid out with switches for breakers). In the middle section is where the reactor operator ("RO") sits. He shims the control rods up and down in the reactor core with the lever (the L shaped lever just in front of the horizontal bar) and on the left is the throttleman station (usually manned by electricians). The large wheel is used to open/close ahead steam valves to the propusion shaft, while the smaller wheel is used to open/close back steam (astern throttles). The two wheels would be used in conjunction with each other to get the shaft to stop from a forward rotation, and then go in reverse (ahead steam is removed and astern steam applied to stop the shaft). The different gauges are specific to each station, with the throttleman concerned about power to steam flow ratios, steam pressures, etc. The RO cares about primary water avg. (coolant) temp, pressures, etc. The EO is watching vital bus voltages, and charging the battery with a trickle charge.

Thought you may like to know that (I used to sit on the far right, but on a newer version of that same panel).

That would certainly seem to have more creedance. Why would a large wheel be necessary on any computer, even one as ancient as this? I never saw one on the old room sized computers I've seen pictures of.

Even so it's still pretty funny and probably not too far off the mark of what they would have envisioned a "home" computer to look like.

 

[shiner]

Too bad this didn't come to pass. I would love to have a computer with a steering wheel on it. That way I could occasionally jump up out of my chair, grab they wheel and say something like...

[pirate]Yaaaarrrrr.......this be a good night to be searching for booty!![/pirate]

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: Amused
What the hell are the wheels for?

 

[Megatomic]

The wheels are actually how the throttleman opens/closes the throttles for the turbines that drive the main engine. The big one is for ahead/the little one is for reverse.

On a CVN class ship, they are not ganged like that. Oh, btw, I loved being a throttleman, during special maneuvering it was a lot of fun, lots of excitement. :thumbsup:

 

[Mucho]

They were extrapolating from the known as prognosticator often do, but revolution comes from the unknown.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Amused
What the hell are the wheels for?

LMAO... that's what I was wondering..

 

[Rob9874]

Originally posted by: Coquito
Looks very PSed.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: Amused
What the hell are the wheels for?

for racing simulations, duh?

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: Amused
Well, that's how much the transister changed the world, folks.

It was, without a doubt, the most signifigant technological invention of the 20th century

What the hell is a transistor? My vacuum tubes are serving me just fine!

I thought one vacuum tube was one transistor. I could be wrong though...

Funny photoshop though.

 

[bbrontosaurus]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: JackBurton
I wish I could take a 4.2lb Sony VAIO laptop back to the fifties.

I'd like to take a McLaren F1 or Lotus Elise back to the 1950s when they thought the "car of the future" would be nuclear-powered and have rocket engines.

Dood, on that note, you could just take a Toyota Camry and pwn all the cars of that age.....maybe even a Corolla!

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: bbrontosaurus

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: JackBurton
I wish I could take a 4.2lb Sony VAIO laptop back to the fifties.

I'd like to take a McLaren F1 or Lotus Elise back to the 1950s when they thought the "car of the future" would be nuclear-powered and have rocket engines.

Dood, on that note, you could just take a Toyota Camry and pwn all the cars of that age.....maybe even a Corolla!

Depends on what you mean by pwn.. most cars back then had huge engines.

Granted, the cars themselves were huge too.. but still.

 

[Martin]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: bbrontosaurus

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: JackBurton
I wish I could take a 4.2lb Sony VAIO laptop back to the fifties.

I'd like to take a McLaren F1 or Lotus Elise back to the 1950s when they thought the "car of the future" would be nuclear-powered and have rocket engines.

Dood, on that note, you could just take a Toyota Camry and pwn all the cars of that age.....maybe even a Corolla!

Depends on what you mean by pwn.. most cars back then had huge engines.

Granted, the cars themselves were huge too.. but still.

But AFAIK, the engines were also not very efficient and the cars were heavier than tanks.

 

[SuperTool]

Originally posted by: MartyTheManiak

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: bbrontosaurus

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: JackBurton
I wish I could take a 4.2lb Sony VAIO laptop back to the fifties.

I'd like to take a McLaren F1 or Lotus Elise back to the 1950s when they thought the "car of the future" would be nuclear-powered and have rocket engines.

Dood, on that note, you could just take a Toyota Camry and pwn all the cars of that age.....maybe even a Corolla!

Depends on what you mean by pwn.. most cars back then had huge engines.

Granted, the cars themselves were huge too.. but still.

But AFAIK, the engines were also not very efficient and the cars were heavier than tanks.

Everybody would laugh at you cus your car is tiny and has no fins or big chrome.

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: werk
Photoshop

re-owned

 

[xcript]

Sweet.

 

[Shelly21]

Ah, I was wondering why the printer paper loads in one way and comes out another way.

 

[rahvin]

Originally posted by: Coquito
Looks very PSed.

 

[KillyKillall]

Did anyone ever notice that this was a hoax?????

Proof of Hoax

 

[JulesMaximus]

BWAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!

What is the big wheel for? :laugh:

 

[Kerouactivist]

whats the problem doesn't everybody's computer look like that???

 

[Ticks]

I wish mine looked like that

 

[Kerouactivist]

Originally posted by: Ticks
hahah thats from a Fark Photoshop contest...go to fark now. A link is up and SNOPES has officially debunked it as fake.
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hehe

 

[Bassyhead]

heh

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Fortran.....the bane of my existence!