Home Computer 1954

Quote from William T Brooks

Here is a Little Tid-Bit that some of you that are Big Into Computers might like?

This what the Rand Crop. said that the Home Computer would look like in 2004 some 50 Years later !

http://www.ranch26bar.com/HOMECOMPUTER.html

Chilibill

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Well, so much for scientific predictions. If I were gonna be around in another 58 years, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that today's global-warming "experts" were just as wrong.

great stuff. thanks for the post it made me laugh.

I bet that thing is faster than my laptop

One of the very first computers I worked on was one that took up a small, temperature-controlled room. I was in another room with a monitor (monochrome, of course), and a keyboard. I was entering names and addresses for a mailing list and mailing labels.

Wait . . . I take that back . . . I took a computer class in college - Fortran. We had to draw up flow charts first, then type in the different cards and then feed them into a machine (the computer) which read the cards and printed out something at the end. Once you used the cards, they had no other use, although some crafty people figured out how to fold them a special way (into a cone on the end), fasten them to a styrofoam ring, and spray paint the whole thing with gold . . . yuk!! Here's a picture of some window blinds someone made with old computer punch cards - yikes!

All I can say is . . . computers have come a lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ong way!

Mrs. C

About 40 years ago,I learned FORTRAN & COBOL too.(but,i already had forgotten all)
at first, we used IBM punching cards,then open reel tapes.
As concerns computer,i like a now computer.

Regards,
H.sanada