It's 2004 now, does any of you have a 'puter that looks like this ?
A 1954 Popular Mechanics
A 1954 Popular Mechanics
It's 2004 now, does any of you have a 'puter that looks like this ?
I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature’s ways of fang and claw or exposure and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow. – Fred Bear
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ackermannsacre
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Re: A 1954 Popular Mechanics
That picture is actually the submarine engineering control room simulator in Groton CT, not a model of a computer at all.
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Re: A 1954 Popular Mechanics
Wow, darn... Your a pretty smart feller Ackersmannsacre. I checked it out and the photo is a hoax.
"The color picture above was taken in 2000 at the Smithsonian Institution exhibit "Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War" and depicts a full-scale mock-up of a typical nuclear-powered submarine's maneuvering room in which the ship's engineers control the power plant and electrical and steam systems
I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature’s ways of fang and claw or exposure and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow. – Fred Bear
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Re: A 1954 Popular Mechanics
Yeah, I learned a little something sitting in front of a control panel just like that for 20 years!
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Re: A 1954 Popular Mechanics
I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature’s ways of fang and claw or exposure and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow. – Fred Bear