View of the future home PC from 1954

disneyjoe7

Love the ship wheel used for what? And just image the TUBES in this thing. Or the heat this thing gives off. I can't imaging the boot times what 30 Min's????? Give or take a few :eek:

VR3

They would absolutely crap their flat hat if someone handed them a laptop right about now.

Or how about a PDA.

Haha

disneyjoe7

Trey, For what you can remember of your last 18 years, just wait another 18 years so many changes will happen. Some good some bad just wait.

disneyjoe7

Heck in another 18 years Trey will may not be "Sid the Kid"

BaggedLancer

The PC i just built for my house looks JUST LIKE THAT. You mean you guys have something different?

disneyjoe7

Now I'm wondering about your POWER BILL

jkn

I love that clip - absolutely hilarious. Too bad it's a fake - a great fake, but still a fake. It's actually a shot of a submarine control room taken at the Smithsonian with a bit of photoshop magic...

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

disneyjoe7

:mad: :rolleyes: :cool: :eek: :eek: :eek:


You spoil everything, but I was sent that picture in an email and bought it as real :rolleyes: All in all the first computers where in fact rooms that would make up a house, filled with TUBES acting as Flip / Flops for memory storage.

jkn

I bought it when I first saw it too...

Sorry for ruining it. I think what makes it funny is the fact the early computers did fill rooms... The steering wheel is perfect.

Still hilarious - whether real or fake.

disneyjoe7

Yes it's still hilarious whether it's real or fake. Just sent an email back to the person who sent it to me, the fact is fake won't go over well.

mrbigbluelight

The inverted L shaped handle in the lower center of the console is where the real action happens, where you "latch and snatch".

schwarcw

That steering wheel is a nice touch. I guess that is supposed to be a mouse.

disneyjoe7

mrbigbluelight wrote:

The inverted L shaped handle in the lower center of the console is where the real action happens, where you "latch and snatch".

Would that be a left click on the mouse NOW?

disneyjoe7

All the meters for the BIAS'g issues. A Geeks wet dream.

hearingimpared

When I was in tech school . . . around 1974, the school had one of the first computers from the 50s, it took up a whole room and the power supply alone took up a room. Some of the tubes were the size of a paint cans even taller.

disneyjoe7

Wasn't the first computers 4 bit file systems not like today 8 / 16 / 32 / 64 bits?

danger boy

disneyjoe7 wrote:

Heck in another 18 years Trey will may not be "Sid the Kid"

Prob in another 18 years (or less) we have many several new sid the kids running around here. :eek: Sid Jr's

shack

hearingimpared wrote:

When I was in tech school . . . around 1974, the school had one of the first computers from the 50s, it took up a whole room and the power supply alone took up a room. Some of the tubes were the size of a paint cans even taller.

I took my first computer science class in 1972. Input was punch cards and output was greenbar. Punch the code on the cards, load them into the hopper and run through the reader. Wait a couple of hours till your printout was ready. DAMN!! One card was wrong! Repunch and repeat the process.

In the 60s' My Father installed one of the first retail POS inventory tracking systems in the southeast with the help of Honeywell. They built the thing from scratch in a 20'x30' room dedicated to the gear. Today an iPod or cell phone probably has more processing capablity as that room full of gear.

madmax

I used the punch cards my first year of college. They sucked! I remember the computer room being absolutely huge. Man, the guys running that place thought they were the ****. It's pretty amazing a cheap pda today has thousands of times more computing power.
madmax

hearingimpared

shack wrote:

I took my first computer science class in 1972. Input was punch cards and output was greenbar. Punch the code on the cards, load them into the hopper and run through the reader. Wait a couple of hours till your printout was ready. DAMN!! One card was wrong! Repunch and repeat the process.

In the 60s' My Father installed one of the first retail POS inventory tracking systems in the southeast with the help of Honeywell. They built the thing from scratch in a 20'x30' room dedicated to the gear. Today an iPod or cell phone probably has more processing capablity as that room full of gear.

Yeah Brother I clearly rmemeber those days. Do you remember when IBM 1050 Teminals came out. They were the s#I^ at the time. You loaded all your punched cards into the hopper making sure the header and trailer were perfect then it was transmitted at 300 baud (lightening back then) over a dialed in phone line to a matrix and then send over a blistering 9600 baud line to a Memorex 1070 and converted to the mainframe language. I was in telecommuniccations back then and had to read the data coming overthe line in hexadecimal.


My dad was a "Data Processing" teacher back when. Say keypunch operator or keypunch machine to a 30 year old today and see if they don't look at you as if you had two heads. LOL

disneyjoe7

300 baud was the S#I^ in the day I remember that, punch card seen then never had to work with them. I bit too young I guess.

ben62670

You guys are old

hearingimpared

ben62670 wrote:

You guys are old

Yeah sonny I can feel my bones and joints creaking!

schwarcw

hearingimpared wrote:

Say keypunch operator or keypunch machine to a 30 year old today and see if they don't look at you as if you had two heads. LOL

I can remember the sound of those keypunch machines to this day. They had a very distinct sound feeding and punching cards. Left pinky card feed! LOL!

I'm going to get out my Post 23 scale log-log slide rule. LOL!

Anyone remember the Wang calculators?

disneyjoe7

schwarcw wrote:

Anyone remember the Wang calculators?

Rings a bell for that's all, something talked about or played with? I'm not sure.

ben62670

I think the first computer I used was 2kb. My friends dad ownedd it. He worked at the university of Conn. It took a half hour to load a small program from a cassette that you were an o and if you touched an x you died. My toaster is more powerful than that!