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What is in store for us in the year 2004
Pituca FairChang
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Join date: 17 May 2003
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11-18-2004 16:47
This is an e-mail I received from my son today. I just had to share it with you all. Hehe


"Here is the predicted home computer for 2004 as envisioned 50 years ago by popular mechanics and the Rand Corp. I want one of these suckers to balance my check book and surf the web, that must be what the steering wheel is for."



See attachment below.
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Misnomer Jones
3 is the magic number
Join date: 27 Jan 2003
Posts: 1,800
11-18-2004 17:38
Pfft, it doesnt even have dual monitors.
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Olympia Rebus
Muse of Chaos
Join date: 22 Feb 2004
Posts: 1,831
11-18-2004 18:02
Good Lord- that thing looks like a navy sub with a printer.
Wonder if you can take that thing for a swim? :)
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Torley Linden
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Join date: 15 Sep 2004
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11-18-2004 18:05
Nice steering wheel... looks like you could take it for a drive... RIGHT INTO THE GROUND!!! :D
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rinaz bijoux
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11-18-2004 18:10
I'd hate to break it to ya ...but its a hoax and the poof here
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Pituca FairChang
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11-18-2004 19:05
Wait till I call my son and tell him!! He is a computer geek and you think he would know better. LOL
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Teeny Leviathan
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11-18-2004 20:05
I was so looking forward to going to Montgomery Ward and picking up one of those wondrous machines. :mad:
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Cross Lament
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Join date: 20 Mar 2004
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11-18-2004 20:44
I almost choked when I read 'FORTRAN' and 'easy to use' in the same sentence like that. Geez, warn people beforehand, why don't you? :D
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Meiyo Sojourner
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11-18-2004 21:13
From: Cross Lament
I almost choked when I read 'FORTRAN' and 'easy to use' in the same sentence like that. Geez, warn people beforehand, why don't you? :D
....especially considering that if this had been a real article, the fortran referenced would have been the brand new very first version of it LOL. Also, that's not a steering wheel... it's an Etch-A-Sketch implementation of the mouse ;)

-Meiyo
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Zuzi Martinez
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Join date: 4 Sep 2004
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11-19-2004 04:54
it's so complicated even the steering wheel has a steering wheel. i want one of those that doesn nothing but play minesweeper on that high tech black and white tv monitor. ooh no, on the teletype.
Willow Zander
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Join date: 22 May 2004
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11-19-2004 05:01
ooOoooooOooooo..

will it make the old ccchhcchchchhchchccchchchchhchchhchchhhhhh buzzzzz noises like the old commodore 64's used to whilst loading something :D
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Benjamin Opel
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Join date: 16 Aug 2004
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11-19-2004 15:53
From: Pituca Chang
This is an e-mail I received from my son today. I just had to share it with you all. Hehe


"Here is the predicted home computer for 2004 as envisioned 50 years ago by popular mechanics and the Rand Corp. I want one of these suckers to balance my check book and surf the web, that must be what the steering wheel is for."



See attachment below.


ok thank's for sharing that wioth us :)
Olympia Rebus
Muse of Chaos
Join date: 22 Feb 2004
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11-19-2004 16:45
There's about ten more weeks of '04.
Hoax or not, it may still appear :)
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Cross Lament
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11-19-2004 17:05
From: Willow Zander
ooOoooooOooooo..

will it make the old ccchhcchchchhchchccchchchchhchchhchchhhhhh buzzzzz noises like the old commodore 64's used to whilst loading something :D


OMG Willow, I still have a working CBM (Commodore) Pet. It makes that wonderful little "deedle-eedle-eedle-eet!" noise when you first turn it on. *happy sigh* My shrine to computing. :D
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Teeny Leviathan
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11-19-2004 21:03
Now I'm wondering. How would that old guy in the picture ever keep track of the dozens of gauges, buttons and levers, as well as manhandling those big steering wheels by himself? You would think that whoever created that hoax would have used a younger nerd in the picture. :D
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