A scarily accurate prediction from 50 years ago about a possible "home computer" for the early 21st...This is so much like the iMac that it is just uncanny.
("With teletype interface and the fortran language, the computer will be easy to use...")
From 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine.
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... Dammit, it was too good to be true.
I did think the TV looked a bit fake.
But it could have been true at least, and that makes it funny.
Just so you know, this isn't a real photograph. It's a photoshop from fark.com:
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Dang.
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Hey....!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat TV looks familiar...!!!!!!!!
And that PC looks a bit like mine...!!
Zep,
ReplyDeleteHave you heard they make these amazing TVs these days, with picture in colour!
This one was posted just before my last post, but got lost in Blogger's weekend troubles:
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Don`t tell me things like that, Eolake....
I`ll get too excited.......!!!!
Tv`s with pictures in colour...?!!!!
This just isn`t possible....!!!!!!!!
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But what's the steering wheel for?
ReplyDeleteThe steering wheel is to steer with, of course.
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