Dan wrote:

"Gunner" wrote in message
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From 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.

http://home.centurytel.net/cty90143/...tos/PC1954.JPG


Sorry Gunner, its just an urban legend, see:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp

And I quote snopes.com
" Although the photograph displayed could represent what some people in
the early 1950s contemplated a "home computer" might look like (based on
the
technology of the day), it isn't, as the accompanying text claims, a RAND
Corporation illustration from 1954 of a prototype "home computer." The
picture is actually an entry submitted to an image modification
competition,
taken from an original photo of a submarine maneuvering room console found
on U.S. Navy web site, converted to grayscale, and modified to replace a
modern display panel and TV screen with pictures of a decades-old
teletype/printer and television (as well as to add the gray-suited man to
the left-hand side of the photo): "

Yup, this was a Fark.com photoshop contest entry.
See mo
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comm...IDLink=1115586

--
Shawn Wilson

Indeed and the original source pic is at:
http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0864504.jpg
Some of those "farkers" do amazing things in Photoshop competitions and can be
quite humorous.
Health & Peace!
Lance