Rand E wrote:
>This graphic is most interesting in that, the large panel in the
>background is the control panel assembly for a US nuclear submarine
Ding ding ding ding!
The un-photoshopped version of the image originates here:
http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/news/news_stories/sub-centen02.html
After which, this website invited people to submit "hacked" versions
(most were lame):
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1115586&mode=voteresults
The by now ubiquitously-forwarded "RAND computer" version was the
winning entry.
A few things give it away. The shadows and perspective on the TV and
teletype look a little off. And why would a computer need a bazillion
analog gauges? Work on Fortran had only just started in 1954--I
believe the name Fortran may have come later. (Just writing the
compiler took 2 years. The official introduction was in 1957:
http://www.thocp.net/biographies/backus_john.htm , scroll about halfway down.)
And, if you have some 50's Popular Mechanics issues lying around,
you'll see the caption font is wrong. . . ;-)
Now Rand, what I'm dying to know is, what DOES the big steering wheel thing do?
cheers,
-- Ross
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