Home PC Predictions 50 years ago :)

[phusnikn]

Thank god they were so wrong

lol

 

[swaaye]

Dot Matrix printers....1.0 Surround.....Personal Navigation Wheel (Mouse? hehehe)....and what looks to be a fully implemented Motherboard Monitor with real analog gauges!!!!

Sweet

 

[Reverend]

Thank god they were so wrong

If I have the space, and the patience of my wife, I would most certainly not mind having such a "computer" and "computer room"

I think Smaller-Is-Better is just overrated. I want 'em BIG

Just like the way most Americans associate "Better" with "Bigger"

Wheel is too big for my son though

 

[Tweaker]

and what looks to be a fully implemented Motherboard Monitor with real analog gauges!!!!

Sweet

 

[assen]

Photoshop Phriday again, eh?

If "fifty years from now" means 2004, this must come from 1954, right? FORTRAN was created three years later, 1957.

 

[silence]

Photoshop Phriday again, eh?

If "fifty years from now" means 2004, this must come from 1954, right? FORTRAN was created three years later, 1957.

yap. looks fake.
specially "keyboard" part. and that paper coming out of it. chopped if you ask me...

 

[assen]

Apologies: it seems Fortran was invented in 1954, and released commercially in 1957.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran

Still I believe the picture is fake - different parts have different resolutions and lighting.

 

[Mariner]

What clued me in to the obvious fake was the ship's steering wheel attached to the computer. Oh, yes. Also the old TV levitating in the middle of the room was a bit suspect. 8)

 

[RussSchultz]

And the typeset! The typeset is OBVIOUSLY fake.

 

[Scali]

That typewriter in the front doesn't entirely fit the base it's on, so that's Photoshop action I suppose.
Also, if it is a Teletype indeed, than it is not a 50s model at all. It looks like 70s styling, and I don't think it' a Teletype but something else.
I actually had a Teletype at home for my first printer, so I'm intimately familiar with how they look (yes, mine had the punchtape reader/writer device ).
These are them: http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/teletype.html

 

[trinibwoy]

Wow some of you guys are OLD!! My first printer was a Epson 9-pin dot-matrix. 8)

 

[anaqer]

Can you say Fallout ?

 

[phenix]

What does this has to do with 3D tech and hardware.

Sorry for trolling.

 

[swaaye]

What does this has to do with 3D tech and hardware.

Sorry for trolling.

I bet that beast can rip right thru 3dmark58. And I bet that dual-nav-wheel setup allows full z-axis manipulation of CAD models!

 

[phenix]

What does this has to do with 3D tech and hardware.

Sorry for trolling.

I bet that beast can rip right thru 3dmark58. And I bet that dual-nav-wheel setup allows full z-axis manipulation of CAD models!

Come on! There surely were no 3D before John Carmack.

 

[Guden Oden]

Is a funny pic, but after people started calling it a chop, it's quite obvious that is a case. I still saved it to disk though, because like I said, it IS a funny pic. Absolutely one of the better chops I've seen even though it isn't perfect.

 

[KimB]

Well, even though it certainly seems fake, the text below sounds very believable for the time. A few years back, I definitely remember hearing about some similar claims made in the decades before I was born.....

 

[sunscar]

Indeed they were real claims, but from what source and from whose mouth they came, I am uncertain.

Later

Iridius Dio

Kind of goes along with the claim that there would be no need for more than five computers in the world, and the "64k of RAM" claim.

 

[WolfsBane58]

Hmmm... really torn about whether or not getting this system...

It is a tad bigger than my original home computer, the Commodore 64, after all...

 

[g__day]

Yep, looks exactly like my rig