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Photo Moment: In 1954, scientists guess what a home computer will look like in 2004

MrBillPro on Fri March 24, 2006 11:37 PM User is offlineView users profile




Photo Moment: In 1954, scientists guess what a home computer will look like in 2004
1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine: Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a "home computer" could look like in the year 2004. However the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems. With teletype interface and the Fortran language, the computer will be easy to use.

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Chick on Sat March 25, 2006 5:23 AM User is offlineView users profile

Ah geez, I leave my door open one day, and you guys are snapping pictures..And I know it was you guys, Tim is standing right out in the open!!!!!

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NickD on Sat March 25, 2006 5:40 AM User is offline

It does have a monitor and a keyboard, but don't let Billy see this picture or he will be adding a helm to our computers. He will figure we will need one with his, "Where are you going today?" slogan so we have means of steering to determine where we are going today.

Been active in electronics for nearly 50 years now and sick of hearing, we have got to make it cheaper, not that I heard that a zillion times. Can get one heck of a computer today for less than 500 bucks so the hardware is getting dirt cheap, the goal is to cut that down to $150.00. Back then software was free, but buy a couple of programs today from Adobe, MS, and Autodesk, easy to hit that $10,000.00 mark in a hurry only to have the data files become completely obsolete in a couple of years. Nobody predicted that.

NickD on Sat March 25, 2006 7:32 AM User is offline

Using IE, everytime I open a new window get this message.

Spybot S&D reports that you want to download "Avenue A, Inc.", this is a known threat, do you want to block this download?

Is this just me? And why is MS letting this happen?

TRB on Sat March 25, 2006 10:20 PM User is offlineView users profile

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Ah geez, I leave my door open one day, and you guys are snapping pictures..And I know it was you guys, Tim is standing right out in the open!!!!!


Not a suit and tie man my friend.



Avenue A is a Tracking Cookie.

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Bigchris on Mon March 27, 2006 4:48 AM User is offline

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Originally posted by: NickD
Using IE, everytime I open a new window get this message.
Spybot S&D reports that you want to download "Avenue A, Inc.", this is a known threat, do you want to block this download?
Is this just me? And why is MS letting this happen?
Spybot is lying to you. If it told the truth it would say "Only masochists use IE".

NickD on Mon March 27, 2006 5:27 AM User is offline

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"Only masochists use IE"


Then I have to be a masochist when downloading many forms from the US government agencies as they only support IE and Adobe. So who is running this country, the people or Billy?

Bigchris on Mon March 27, 2006 2:42 PM User is offline

The short answer is Billy, but the law says those sites must be available to the general public and that includes those that prefer not to use a six year-old bug-ridden browser. There are organizations working to bring those sites into compliance with international standards, but meanwhile you can often access them using Firefox with this extension installed. With it, Firefox can spoof the web site into thinking it is talking to MSIE 6.0.

Adobe is not a problem because they have opened the PDF specification for anyone to use and there are now dozens of applications which can read and write (and some that can even edit) PDF files. Firefox handles pdf files just fine.

Edited: Mon March 27, 2006 at 2:46 PM by Bigchris

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