Computer prediction from 1954

[Trigga Nometry]

This picture is from a 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine read the caption under it.

lol

[thog94]

Nice find. I enjoy reading stuff like that and it really shows how much everything has evolved and how much it was underestimated by people back then. I also remember programing ship stuff in Fortran back in the early 90's. Anyone remember the 7 1/2 floppy disc that came out before the 5 1/2?

[thedarkmatrlx]

:LOL:a steering wheel. For some of the older guys. The original gen 1 Tranformers was supposed to be in the year 1999.

[Trigga Nometry]

I also remember programing ship stuff in Fortran back in the early 90's. Anyone remember the 7 1/2 floppy disc that came out before the 5 1/2?Wow! Fortan, Pascal, I barely remember that all from back in High School in 1987-1988! Jeez, I'm getting old.

Yup, remember those old school giant floppies too. Hell, my first modem had a speed of 300bps.

[Devs]

lol... "With the teletype interface and the Fortran language, the computer will be easy to use."
lol lol

[Trigga Nometry]

Don't know if these are true or not but I have heard of several of them before, maybe some urban legends?

http://www.mth.uct.ac.za/digest/pcquotes.html

[thedarkmatrlx]

Nice find. I enjoy reading stuff like that and it really shows how much everything has evolved and how much it was underestimated by people back then. I also remember programing ship stuff in Fortran back in the early 90's. Anyone remember the 7 1/2 floppy disc that came out before the 5 1/2?

§§§§ I had a early 70's punch card IBM DATABASE MACHINE that my college gave to me in the 90's. I ended up selling it. And had to take turbo pascal in high school

[Presto333]

oh snap, when will Dell be coming out with those? I bet the graphics on one of those will be good enough to play Galaga!! w00t

[Unholy]

lol - thats from a photoshop competition on Fark.com

[Presto333]

lol - thats from a photoshop competition on Fark.com

lol ya now that i look at it I can see some chops in there...

[uniquenewyork15]

i cant even read it...? hate my life

[thog94]

oh snap, when will Dell be coming out with those? I bet the graphics on one of those will be good enough to play Galaga!! w00t


Don't be busting on Galaga. I was dumping quarters into that before you were a twinkle in your dads eye;)

[Presto333]

Don't be busting on Galaga. I was dumping quarters into that before you were a twinkle in your dads eye;)

lol im not, galaga is awesome. My mom loves it, every time i find it online or on some classic game thing we get i barely get a chance to play it haha.

[thog94]

I am still looking for an original machine to put downstairs. I've found a few, but if I'm dumping cash into it I want it in excellent condition.

[Paintballjc]

I am still looking for an original machine to put downstairs. I've found a few, but if I'm dumping cash into it I want it in excellent condition.
i can get any orignal game machine you want. We have around 20 of video games, and around 50 pinball machines.... lmk, and ill give you some info on how to get one.

[Mavrick]

Ok guys here is some triva for you all!
Punch cards and programming in fortran. Core memory with punch tape!
Commodore 64 or a Tandy PC (they uses 8 inch floppys if I remember right.)
First video game..... Astroids

The first PC I used was in a 10 X 10 foot room with tubes and a full sized air conditioner. Core memory with a total size of...... 640 kbs! Boy that was a screamer. Screen size was 7" and a box of punch cards about 8" wide by 20" long.

A simple calculator made by TI cost 350.00 in 1968

Big time was to own an.....
IBM personal PC 8088 with 640 memory and a 1 meg hard drive. that ran windows 3.11

Did I date myself! :sailor:

[KEN CRANE]

Ok guys here is some triva for you all!
Punch cards and programming in fortran. Core memory with punch tape!
Commodore 64 or a Tandy PC (they uses 8 inch floppys if I remember right.)
First video game..... Astroids

The first PC I used was in a 10 X 10 foot room with tubes and a full sized air conditioner. Core memory with a total size of...... 640 kbs! Boy that was a screamer. Screen size was 7" and a box of punch cards about 8" wide by 20" long.

A simple calculator made by TI cost 350.00 in 1968

Big time was to own an.....
IBM personal PC 8088 with 640 memory and a 1 meg hard drive. that ran windows 3.11

Did I date myself! :sailor:

yes u did old man, my dad had a commadore, a trs80 hmm trash 80 and an ibm 8088. then we graduated to an altos. i remember dos, as well as drdos. 8 in floppies yep i remember, remember well

[Presto333]

speaking of commodore i just saw it in a thread on a computing forum while looking for shuttle pc parts http://www.twistedforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6807&highlight=Commodore

[TheImp]

Think we still have a commodore, know we still have two atari 2600 systems and at least 70 games (my collection). Though whats funny with the predictions is that they think we would still have poor computers but yet think we all have flying cars and robot servants.

[thedarkmatrlx]

I am still looking for an original machine to put downstairs. I've found a few, but if I'm dumping cash into it I want it in excellent condition.

i KNOW YOU SAID ORIGINAL AND I WOULD WANT THE SAME THING. TARGET HAS A UPRIGHT ARCADE WITH GALAGA, DONKEY KONG, MS PACMAN & DIG DUG I BELIEVE FOR $450. sorry about the caps. My work program has to be in caps to operate.

[thog94]

JC thanks for the offer, but shipping cross country is a ton of cash for these machines as I've already looked into it. DM, I've seen that machine and was tempted, but am going to stick with an original.

I had a commodore 64 and an Atari back in the day. I saw the Atari in Sears recently with 30 classic games that were built in for 30 bucks. I think that around the same time as Atari was out the Odessey and Intellivision were also big.

[thedarkmatrlx]

I had a commodore 64 and an Atari back in the day. I saw the Atari in Sears recently with 30 classic games that were built in for 30 bucks. I think that around the same time as Atari was out the Odessey and Intellivision were also big.


I saw that 1 as well. I remember the intellivision & a little hazy with the odessey. How about the tandy computer that was just a keyboard and you plugged it into your television.

[Unholy]

I saw that 1 as well. I remember the intellivision & a little hazy with the odessey. How about the tandy computer that was just a keyboard and you plugged it into your television.


Magnavox Odessey - Great games (thy were all rip offs of "real" games) They had KC Munchkin - Instead of Pacman, stuff like that. I had one back in the day.

I also had the Timex Sinclair computer, a keyboard you plugged into your TV and recorded your "programing" on a cassette tape!

[Paintballjc]

JC thanks for the offer, but shipping cross country is a ton of cash for these machines as I've already looked into it. DM, I've seen that machine and was tempted, but am going to stick with an original.

I had a commodore 64 and an Atari back in the day. I saw the Atari in Sears recently with 30 classic games that were built in for 30 bucks. I think that around the same time as Atari was out the Odessey and Intellivision were also big.
Not expensive if we bring it to you, my family is always up for road trips. We go all over the US buying and selling these things lol

[Squishy OWNS YOU!!]

Wow I feel young at 18 lol.

[impactballer7]

lol ya now that i look at it I can see some chops in there...
i hope so. notice the paper where it goes in and where it comes out. aslo look at the lines. I call a fake

[Bigal1]

This picture is from a 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine read the caption under it.

lol


Perhaps this fits in the category of Urban Legend.

What you are looking at is the equipment from a submarine "Maneuvering Room". On the left of the pic is the Steam Plant Control Panel. The large wheels control steam flow to the main engine throttles. In the middle is the Reactor Plant Control Panel where cooling the reactor core is controlled as well as control rods are moved to control (in an indirect way) reactor power. On the right is the Electric PLant Control Panel where electricity is distributed to the ship.

Having used these for most of my Navy career, this is in no way related to any computer.

[Trigga Nometry]

Perhaps this fits in the category of Urban Legend.

Having used these for most of my Navy career, this is in no way related to any computer.No doubt, but still funny lol.

[El Pirata]

Nice find. I enjoy reading stuff like that and it really shows how much everything has evolved and how much it was underestimated by people back then. I also remember programing ship stuff in Fortran back in the early 90's. Anyone remember the 7 1/2 floppy disc that came out before the 5 1/2?Ok, do you remember computers using cassette tapes instead of floppy disks?

In like 79 or 80 the computers at my school used cassette tapes. While my memory is failing whether they had any sort of floppy drive. It's not like we spend hours upon hours on the computer back then, I think it was a single one hour session my class spent on the computer.

I remember in like 82 or 83 we had a few computers in the library at my Junior High that had the new and improved 5-1/4" floppy drives. I remember there was a game we played which was only a step or two ahead of pong that was called choplifter (if I remember correctly).

[Luc]

I don't knwo what they were called originally but the newer versions of those cassette tapes are called ditto tapes, I still got one of the tapes and a ditto drive sitting in one of my shelves somewhere. I don't have one of the super old school ones though, I have like the most recent version. The super oldschool one's were much bigger and held barely anything compared to the one I got. I just doug through my shelves and found it. It has a storage capacity of 3.2gb when compressed and 1.6 uncompressed, which is pretty imprsive considering its age.