computer geeks look here! Picture from 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine

[SharkmanBMW]

This picture is before you knew what a computer was or probably before most of the board was born!

Picture from 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine be sure to read the caption below the picture.

[saj3n]

LOL man... just imagine if we all had one of those to access bimmer.info

[DaveVoorhis]

Hmmm... Isn't that a 70's vintage DecWriter in the foreground? And what's with the boat wheel? For an early version of GTA?

[ryan roopnarine]

um, that photo was created for a photoshop contest on www.fark.com in 2003 or 2004 (asking for what people in the past thought things in the future would look like) . the age of the printer, among other things, gives it away.

[pingu]

Who could ever need more than 16k of RAM?

[632 Regal]

I have 4k sticks and all the floppies for windows first version of dos...

Who could ever need more than 16k of RAM?

[GoldenOne]

fark.com has some stuff...those photoshop contests always gives me a good laugh

[sKilled]

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."
Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment, 1977
US computer engineer & industrialist (1926 - )

"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons."
unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949
Quotations by unknown authors

"If the automobile had followed the same development cyclee as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."
Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld

"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in."
Bradley's Bromide

"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little."
Porterfield

[Paul in NZ]

the computer that the brits used to help break the enigma code took up a whole room