Who'd have thought???

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And they DID!







(Do you know the year of that pic, Lil? )

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Nope it was just something that went around at Mr. Lil's work.

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The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.~ Betty Grable

If I wanted your opinion, I'd remove the duct tape and ask you for it.~ Me
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One man's dream is another man's nightmare~~~~> §¤ Lilith ¤§
~>My Scribbles<~
==>Gone Shopping<== ~Just a Quickie~ *~A Celebration Vacation~* ~Surprises~ Sleeping With the Window Open
What Did You Do Today? Self Defense Class ~Short Sweet Snippets~ § Summer Spin § Story Challenge Submission Pajamas

the type at thr bottom said "fifty years from now" so sometime in the fifties would be my guess.
good thing they improved the design...that thing would never have fit in the basement

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some fairly sordid tales, rambles, and anecdotes
Hypothetically Speaking * Something More * Cammy Interrupted * An Experimental Vacation * Masked * so..damn..hot * Thank You * My toy, his idea * no.19 Maple Lane * I Have A Surprise For You * Yesterday * In a Quiet Kitchen * help me decide * untitled prose * more untitled prose

They were very forward thinking to make sure it came with a steering wheel for driving games.

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So 2004 minus 50 would be 1954, I think I remember seeing that pic around then.

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I always wondered what the was for... hmm... guess i'll have to get with the times. :drive:

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Only because I was curious, I did a search on the net to find out more about this...

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

Check these out..

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...6lr%3D%26sa%3DN

http://www.bethel-college.edu/libra...p_computers.htm

In any case...I am thankful to those who preceeded us and made that giant leap in logic that allowed all of us to perv..

and google

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Trees give peace to the souls of men * Nora Waln

The forest would be very quiet if no other birds sang than those who sing the best * Henry van Dyke

some fairly sordid tales, rambles, and anecdotes
Hypothetically Speaking * Something More * Cammy Interrupted * An Experimental Vacation * Masked * so..damn..hot * Thank You * My toy, his idea * no.19 Maple Lane * I Have A Surprise For You * Yesterday * In a Quiet Kitchen * help me decide * untitled prose * more untitled prose

Well snopes is being a butthead so i can't see

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The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.~ Betty Grable

If I wanted your opinion, I'd remove the duct tape and ask you for it.~ Me
<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>
One man's dream is another man's nightmare~~~~> §¤ Lilith ¤§
~>My Scribbles<~
==>Gone Shopping<== ~Just a Quickie~ *~A Celebration Vacation~* ~Surprises~ Sleeping With the Window Open
What Did You Do Today? Self Defense Class ~Short Sweet Snippets~ § Summer Spin § Story Challenge Submission Pajamas

LMAO WI......I wondered about the steering wheel too lol.....

I think someone was a little off with the size issue

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It's a BOY!!

me either...i thought it was my puter but now i can blame snopes
:wiggles: not my-y fau-ult. neener neener neener

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Trees give peace to the souls of men * Nora Waln

The forest would be very quiet if no other birds sang than those who sing the best * Henry van Dyke

some fairly sordid tales, rambles, and anecdotes
Hypothetically Speaking * Something More * Cammy Interrupted * An Experimental Vacation * Masked * so..damn..hot * Thank You * My toy, his idea * no.19 Maple Lane * I Have A Surprise For You * Yesterday * In a Quiet Kitchen * help me decide * untitled prose * more untitled prose

And...just imagine...

If their imagination had hopes for "THAT" in 2004...what will we project for our future in 50 years...and who'll laugh at us for our lack of miniaturization!

Egads! That thing would take up my entire living room! No Shit!

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I tried the link again and I can get it... hmmmmmmmm

This is what it says...

Does Not Compute

Claim: Photograph shows RAND Corporation's 1954 design for a home computer.

Status: False.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2004]

(PUT PIC HERE)

Variations:

* A November 2004 version of this piece opens with: "This article is from an issue of 1954 Popular Mechanics magazine forecasting the possibility of 'home computers' in 50 years. It appears that the 'mouse' replaced the steering wheel . . ."

Origins: Many a prognosticator who has tried to envision the future has been tripped up by a failure to correctly anticipate the direction of technological change. Those who would forecast the world of tomorrow have often made the mistaken of simply taking the technologies of their day and assuming that in the future those technologies would be bigger, faster, and more powerful — what escaped their vision was that science and society might come up with new and different ways of manufacturing and using those technologies.

One case in point is the computer. Predictions from several decades ago failed to foresee that computers would become much smaller and cheaper; that these changes would enable nearly every business and home to have its own computer to be used for a variety of applications, and that those machines would be linked together in a world-wide network. Instead, futurist scenarios frequently presented a world of very few, very expensive all-powerful computers the size of large buildings, used only for divining answers to complex problems beyond the ability of man to solve on his own.

Although the photograph displayed could represent what some people in the early 1950s contemplated a "home computer" might look like (based on the technology of the day), it isn't, as the accompanying text claims, a RAND Corporation illustration from 1954 of a prototype "home computer." The picture is actually an entry submitted to a Fark.com 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):

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