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[Achilles Last Stand]

Every home should have one 



Shame some of the text is missing 

[dave.m]

Very interesting, Steph.
I am just wondering why they have an 'Ahead' and 'Astern' throttle valve wheels for.
It is more like one of the engine rooms on an old warship than my PC.
dave

[roseway]

Where did you get that picture of my computer room Steph?

[Floydoid]

I can actually admit to having used a 'teletype interface' for programming in FORTRAN.

the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work

Surely they can't mean Windows?

[tuftedduck]

I hadn't realised that the new ones were as tiny as that. 

[UncleUB]

My Dell is the same as that except I upgraded the monitor to floor standing 

[Pwiggler]

Very interesting, Steph.
I am just wondering why they have an 'Ahead' and 'Astern' throttle valve wheels for.
It is more like one of the engine rooms on an old warship than my PC.
dave

 

[kitz]

I am just wondering why they have an 'Ahead' and 'Astern' throttle valve wheels for.
It is more like one of the engine rooms on an old warship than my PC

Sorry to spoil the fun  - well spotted dave.

Take a look at the pic of a Submarine Maneuvering Room from www.navy.mil




Fully story

[Achilles Last Stand]

  I love Snopes 

[ianrj]

Take a look at the pic of a Submarine Maneuvering Room from www.navy.mil




Fully story

How did you spot that? 

[kitz]

>> How did you spot that? 

If truth be known..  I was actually sent the image quite a while back and remember it being done as a joke.

So because I remembered the e-mail (which iirc was from my cousin) ... it was just a case of doing a google to see why I remembered it.


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Still doesn't detract from the fact that it was a brilliant piece of work by the author - and gave us some of us a giigle

[mr_chris]

LOL - had me fooled 

[ianrj]

  I prefer the spoof.

Fortran and teletype interface. Now that takes me back ... 

I did my first piece of programming at school when I was 15 or 16, in Basic, and it was a paper tape interface, 5 hole I think! We all traipsed off to the local computer magnates - Elliots, later GEC Elliots. Can you guess the year?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Brothers_%28computer_company%29

(Gosh I love the internet!)

[Floydoid]

Ah so somebody else can remember paper tape?  Only used it briefly before we moved onto punched cards.

[roseway]

I remember using an abacus at school.