Popular science prediction of the Home computer in 1954

[parkerbink]

Read the caption. It says this is what a pc will look like in 2004!

[royalflush313]

obviously the Moore's law came much later.

[nando]

this picture is everywhere, and it's not real.

[trent]

fake..check snopes

[spencers]

its a sub control room if im not mistaken. i read it somewhere before

[SykoBMW]

its a sub control room if im not mistaken. i read it somewhere before

It's some set up within a museum, I forget what of.

[bimmerphile]

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

The picture is actually an entry submitted to an image modification competition, taken from an original photo of a submarine maneuvering room console found on U.S. Navy web site, converted to grayscale, and modified to replace a modern display panel and TV screen with pictures of a decades-old teletype/printer and television (as well as to add the gray-suited man to the left-hand side of the photo)

[parkerbink]

I was wondering why there was a wheel!

:oops: :oops:

[PanamaE30]

I was wondering why there was a wheel!

:oops: :oops:

It's to play racing simulators ;)

[PanamaE30]

http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?newsID=2793

There's the explanation

[///M Powered]

My computer isn't supposed to look like that?

[randomtask37]

well they were pretty close!

[e30Matt]

I was wondering why there was a wheel!

:oops: :oops:

It's to play racing simulators ;)

Pshh... mad scr0ll wh3ll y0