[ale] #OT HUMOR: The "home computer of 2004" (as envisioned circa 1954)...

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at comcast.net
Tue Oct 16 14:22:02 EDT 2007


I got a lot of the visual references but I guess my beard is not gray 
enough to "get" Amstrad or RISC.

I did get SGi (caps noted) immediately because the guitar there is a 
Gibson SG.

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On 10/15/07, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
>   
>> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>>     
>>> Thanks, Thomas, for being the first to point out that the picture is a
>>> fake, long known to Snopes.com.  The terminal in the foreground, I
>>> believe is a DECwriter and is therefore highly anachronistic to the
>>> other hardware.
>>>       
>> That reminds me of http://m3.entitea.com/pics/pic_5580970011890947492.jpg
>>
>> Moderately funny, somewhat bizarre, and slightly nsfw.
>>
>>     
>
> Sad.
>
> I briefly scanned all the images before I even noticed the Sun
> picture.  Been working with Linux far too long.
>
> Greg
>   



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