<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">BillK</b> <<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com">pharos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 2/16/06, Damien Broderick wrote:<br>> But *all* the people from the dying world of Metaluna look like that!<br>> This is not really a home computer, though, it's an interociter. You<br>> can tell by the big steering wheel.
<br>><br><br>Dirk did say it was a joke. :)<br><br><<a href="http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp">http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp</a>><br><br>Although the photograph displayed could represent what some people in
<br>the early 1950s contemplated a "home computer" might look like (based<br>on the technology of the day), it isn't, as the accompanying text<br>claims, a RAND Corporation illustration from 1954 of a prototype "home
<br>computer." The picture is actually an entry submitted to a <a href="http://Fark.com">Fark.com</a><br>image modification competition, taken from an original photo of a<br>submarine maneuvering room console found on
U.S. Navy web site,<br>converted to grayscale, and modified to replace a modern display panel<br>and TV screen with pictures of a decades-old teletype/printer and<br>television (as well as to add the gray-suited man to the left-hand
<br>side of the photo).</blockquote><div><br>
Now you've gone and spoiled it!<br>
Anyway, IMO the giveaway was the dot matrix printer which while not
2004 was around . 1984, some 30yrs after the alleged photo was
taken.<br>
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Dirk <br>
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