"Full ahead both!"

[zebra99]

Roll on 2004...I gotta get one of these...including the ships wheel.

I think they were a bit out on size though

http://urbanlegends....me_computer.htm

Edited October 18, 2013 by Saru
Source link added

[DeWitz]

What a pic! "Dive, dive!!!" (a-hoooga! a-hoooga!). Where's Richard Basehart and. . .sailor 'Kowalski?'

[freetoroam]

Jeeze, and look at the size of the mobile phone on the wall, today we would mistake that for an old t.v.

[Still Waters]

That picture is a hoax - according to this -

Analysis: Albeit significantly doctored, what you're actually looking at in the image above is a full-scale mock-up of the maneuvering room of a U.S. nuclear submarine, not someone's conception of a "home computer" as envisioned in 1954

http://urbanlegends....me_computer.htm

[Frank Merton]

Now that makes sense; I was wondering what all the gages might be for, and the wheel.

[freetoroam]

Well as it says "could" look like, but what they did not bank on is 50 years from then, scientific progress did not just solve the problems, they chewed it up, spat it out, tweeked a few knobs and put it in a tiny little thing called a microchip.

Edited October 18, 2013 by freetoroam

[questionmark]

Fortran was not released until 57, in 54 the initial work just started on a Beta version.

If some guys decide to fake images, at least they should do some Wikipedia reading.

[zebra99]

I had a boys encyclopaedia that showed what life would be like in 1984...it showed skyscrapers in New York being buzzed by small two seater planes and a cop on top of a tower directing traffic.It also said any moon rocket would have to be half a mile high to exit the Earths gravity.

Or was that a hoax too?...Nope it was an old book.

Fake or not it points out how incredibly technology has advanced over the last fifty years.

[DeWitz]

Jeeze, and look at the size of the mobile phone on the wall, today we would mistake that for an old t.v.

That's the spirit--Free, you've got the creative mind of a hoaxer!