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Dave Bell
post Nov 18 2004, 06:15 PM
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Wife just sent me this photo with caption from a 1954 issue of Popular Mechanics...


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post Nov 18 2004, 06:20 PM
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Mine is exactly like that!
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post Nov 18 2004, 06:21 PM
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Have to have a pretty big "computer room" for that bad boy.
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post Nov 18 2004, 06:23 PM
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all the guys who would have used it have already been abducted (except miles who has one and rich's car which was constructed from a decommissioned unit)

edit: oh, yeah and slits - sorry man!
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post Nov 18 2004, 06:45 PM
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heres the crazy part what he is standing by looks a lot like some of the orignal submarine reactor training controls
here is a link that the below pic came from if anybody doubts me:http://americanhistory.si.edu/subs/operating/propulsion/reactor/index.html


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post Nov 18 2004, 06:49 PM
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I wanna know what the big Captian's wheel is for???

All they need is an engine and an anchor.

edit: Scott beat me to it.... Reactor stuff huh!!!... sell it to the Iranians for their nuclear program... lets see that should set them back... 50 years! (Was that political?)

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post Nov 18 2004, 07:04 PM
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in the 50's that would have been a TOP SECRET pic, even though they said it was something else i would bet who ever released it got in trouble
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post Nov 18 2004, 07:30 PM
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QUOTE(Dave Bell @ Nov 18 2004, 07:49 PM)
I wanna know what the big Captian's wheel is for???

All they need is an engine and an anchor.

edit: Scott beat me to it.... Reactor stuff huh!!!... sell it to the Iranians for their nuclear program... lets see that should set them back... 50 years! (Was that political?)

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Its for operating a thing called a "ON LINE GAME" which is to be played on the "INTERNET" which has yet to be invented by the young Mr. Al Gore. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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post Nov 18 2004, 07:44 PM
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time for me to get a deletion by making a political comment but then again i should not get deleted because the butt of the joke is out of office and post political

Reactor stuff huh!!!... sell it to the Iranians for their nuclear program... lets see that should set them back... 50 years! (Was that political?).......................[COLOR=red]cant do that bill is out of office[COLOR=red]
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post Nov 18 2004, 08:13 PM
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Secret spy shot of the 914 club being developed....


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post Nov 18 2004, 09:33 PM
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post Nov 18 2004, 09:38 PM
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post Nov 18 2004, 09:40 PM
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post Nov 18 2004, 10:36 PM
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I guess the steering wheels are for cruising the net. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) I started with Fortan in the early seventies, punch cards were a big pain in the ass. So were the paper tapes when everyone went to Basic. They made great confetti, throw a bag on someones lawn and they'd never get it out. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Nov 18 2004, 11:28 PM
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Its simple

Wheel is for the 914 simulator
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post Nov 19 2004, 09:34 AM
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Teethed on Fortran. Was a punchcard and reel to reel bunny for years before they would let me touch the keyboard. After that I was hooked.
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post Nov 19 2004, 10:16 AM
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This top secret image was recently released to the public. It gives some insight as to what the scientists envisioned we might use this 'home computer' for. The yet-to-be-invented technology they are referring to is now known as the 'joystick'.

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post Nov 19 2004, 10:18 AM
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QUOTE(scott thacher @ Nov 18 2004, 04:45 PM)
heres the crazy part what he is standing by looks a lot like some of the orignal submarine reactor training controls

Sadly, you're absolutely right - it's a photochop - that is a set of cold-war era reactor controls (almost certainly from a photo taken of the same set in the smithsonian), and a teletype, and a console TV...

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp

Still funny though!
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