Abeness said
> jim beam wrote:
> > but abe, have you ever seen a scuba tank explode?
>
> Nope.
>
> > gasoline fuel cell, absolutely. hydrogen fuel cell? no chance.
>
> All I said was it's being tried, jim. The RAND Corporation thought in
> 1954 that home computers of 2004 would fit within a single room. I don't
> have the source of the picture/caption I have (probably from something
> like Popular Science), but the sucker is complete with a large steering
> wheel (yes, a steering wheel), lots of analog gauges covering a whole
> wall (yes, gauges!), and a maybe 18" teletype tractor feed printer. It's
> also got a large TV mounted high on a wall. With the Fortran language,
> it was expected to be easy to use. Hah hah.

Don't believe everything you see on the Internet. That is a
"manufactured" composite using an altered photo of this submarine
manuvering room console:

http://home.att.net/~jeff1_satobserve/photo17.htm


The whole story is at:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp



Casey