posted 26 November 2004 12:21 AM
...Damn! It doesn't seem to allow the external link either... What a crappy site. Well just use the big steering wheel on your big room-sized home mainframe computing centre to enter this string into your world computer network viewing device: http://www.airdisaster.com/user-uploads/1954.jpg .
Or better yet, just check it out in the snopes hoax link above.
posted 26 November 2004 12:24 AM
D'oh! Shoulda checked that one...
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Albireo
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posted 26 November 2004 12:26 AM
Don't worry, Mike. With the feeble moderator-like powers they gave me in this forum, I can, for a price, change this thread to make you seem clever.
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Hinterland
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posted 26 November 2004 12:28 AM
Mike...what did you think the wheel was for?
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Papal Bull
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posted 26 November 2004 12:29 AM
Why rely on Popular Mechanics when you can just look at any World Fair?
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'lance
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posted 26 November 2004 12:29 AM
Well, dip me in shit and roll me in peanuts.
Perhaps the wheel should have been a tip-off. Or the reference to FORTRAN. I know they were using that in the early 1960s, but did it exist in 1954?
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Hinterland
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posted 26 November 2004 12:37 AM
I think the wheel was a primitive Computer Engineer torture device.
If you ask me snottily one more time why I would ever need that functionality, it's 'The Wheel' for you!
posted 26 November 2004 12:43 AM
Yeah, but to program the first electronic computers, you actually got out the pliers and moved wires and vacuum tubes around. That sounds tortuous enough to me.
This page sez the first version of FORTRAN was completed in 1957.
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posted 26 November 2004 12:56 AM
Yeah, come to think of it I should have remembered some of those facts (like about FORTRAN, for instance). Oh well, it's been a long day and I haven't been getting enough sleep lately. That's my lame excuse and I'm sticking to it.
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'lance
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posted 26 November 2004 12:59 AM
Don't worry about it. Lame excuses are the only ones worth sticking to. Trust me on this one.
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Albireo
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posted 26 November 2004 01:21 AM
Yep. I stick tenaciously to lame excuses and underwear.
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posted 29 November 2004 02:32 PM
Warren Kinsella fell for it.
quote:November 29, 2004 - What the cut line to the photo doesn't indicate is that this is the computer that is ACTUALLY IN USE RIGHT NOW at the Department of Homeland Security.
Email this thread to someone!
posted 25 November 2004 11:58 PM
