rhino Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 Whoa! It's not often that I get scolded for being too serious! I'm glad I'm sitting down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 "One could even make a strong argument that certain segments of the population aren't having enough babies, while those who are least capable of sustaining a strong lineage are having too many." Some of us have been talking about this for years!... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Boudrie Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 By coincidence, this image was forwarded to me yesterday:-Chet From A 1954 Popular Mechanics. Be sure to read the caption below the picture!!!!I wonder what the wheel was for? Perhaps for web navigation!! My guess is that the wheel was for turning the sub http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1115586 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Pinto Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 We aren't overly-populated, we are overly-dense in certain places. People aren't starving to death because we can't produce enough food for them; they starve because we won't get the food to them. You've just made my case. What you've said means that people in "Group A" make more babies than they can feed, so they need those in "Group B" who have plenty of food (or medical supplies or clothing) to support them. I've spent 3-4 hours each week for the past 15 years doing community service work (without a Judge forcing me!), and I can assure you that over-population is the single biggest contributor to the problems I see, and forced prostitution of minors and child pornography are the most repulsive. Anyway, my apologies for the thread drift, but until you've seen it with your own eyes, you just won't understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed K Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 Rob, what you said about a wheel for turning a sub was close. It's actually a reactor control panel from a submarine prototype. (nuclear propulsion school). I believe that it came from the Nautilus SSN-571 prototype. The picture's still a fake though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed K Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 Sorry, should have opened the snpoes link. That's what it basically says. OOPS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Boudrie Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 Rob, what you said about a wheel for turning a sub was close. It's actually a reactor control panel from a submarine prototype. (nuclear propulsion school). I believe that it came from the Nautilus SSN-571 prototype. The picture's still a fake though. What's the wheel do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 Like I said, it's a damn scrolling mouse....... very early version..... of course....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wide45 Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 How else ya gonna play carmageddon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed K Posted November 22, 2004 Share Posted November 22, 2004 The wheels allow more or less steam from the reactor (depending on which direction you turn them) to the turbines for speed. Basically they're throttles. Ahoooga, Ahoooga. Dive dive dive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted November 22, 2004 Share Posted November 22, 2004 If you want to see the real early computer systems, go here: http://www.computerhistory.org/ I worked audio for a special event there last year and got to prowl the place during the couple days we were there. What really floored me was being reminded of all the next “big things’ sitting on the rack is pristine condition. Can you say: TRS-80, Commodore 64, Atari 800, Osborne, Altair 8800, Compaq Portable PC (8” CRT and two 5.5” 512 KB floppy drives!), Bell & Howell Educator series Apple II. You name it, it’s there. Never seen it before, it’s there. And most of them will boot up! I won’t even begin to describe the mainframe level systems archived (PDP-11, DEC VAX 6000, etc) and even earlier discrete component Milspec control systems from the 50’s very much like the photo posted earlier in this thread. Cool place to visit if you are ever in Silicon Valley. BTW, it’s in a newish tech park that SGI gave up on after they went through some serious consolidation a few years back. Some of my freinds got brand new Aeron chairs at $250 a pop when they sold off all the furnishings from the same facility. Strange world ;-) -- Regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wide45 Posted November 22, 2004 Share Posted November 22, 2004 The wheels allow more or less steam from the reactor (depending on which direction you turn them) to the turbines for speed. Basically they're throttles. Scotty, We Need More Power! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezer-lock Posted November 22, 2004 Share Posted November 22, 2004 Cripes kids! The "wheel" is the spool for the punched paper tape that stores the programs. geezer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted November 22, 2004 Share Posted November 22, 2004 Does anyone remember the IBM 1401 and Autocoder.......?....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezer-lock Posted November 22, 2004 Share Posted November 22, 2004 Holy Smoke SigGirl, You can't possibly be that, eh, mature. http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/1401.html geezer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhino Posted November 22, 2004 Share Posted November 22, 2004 I went through college subject to the whims of a VAX 11/780 and the acolytes that served her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted November 22, 2004 Share Posted November 22, 2004 Ahhhh the old days of ENIAC...No I am not that old..but did lots of stuff interfacing with a IBM 370 series running MVS and rooms full of disc and tape.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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