Such a shame, I was so hoping it was real.
Joe Wilensky wrote:
While it's certainly amusing, this photo is a mocked-up hoax, though it seems it might have been someone's imaginary construct of a home computer, circa 1954!
See: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp
Joe
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:47:44 -0800, Keith Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hoo boy! That whole mockup is an absurd construct. What's the brass wheel for? Lowering the reactor moderator rods? And, all those dials and meters...for measuring what?
Cute for use as a Saturday morning kids movie house "extra" perhaps. Immediately following a Flash Gordon clip...
keith whaley
The wheels are for controlling the Giant Talking Head in the next room. You can't see them in the photo, but there are curtains in the ceiling that normally envelop the guy using the wheels. If the curtains are moved, one is to instruct the Talking Head to bellow : "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
cheers, frank
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