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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Future Home Computer
From: David Carter <spotz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 21:51:02 +1300
The font must've been wrong, as font's didn't exist then.
Although I'm not experienced enough to remember back that far, I think they 
were 
called typefaces.

David
sitting here typing into my font driven pc ...

Ross Orr wrote:
> 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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