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Scientists Predict what my Home Computer will look like.....
Posted: September 22, 2004, 4:22 am
by Ransure
50 Years before I even put it together....

Posted: September 22, 2004, 8:47 am
by XunilTlatoani
With...the Fortran language, the computer will be easy to use
Bahahahaha..
Posted: September 22, 2004, 5:23 pm
by Dups.
Priceless

Posted: September 22, 2004, 5:29 pm
by Xouqoa
Why is there a submarine top-hatch door on the front of that thing?
Posted: September 22, 2004, 5:46 pm
by Tenuvil
Why is there a submarine top-hatch door on the front of that thing?
To load the nuclear fuel rods?
Posted: September 22, 2004, 6:10 pm
by Marbus
LOL! That rocks, I wish I had one...
Posted: September 22, 2004, 7:36 pm
by Syndaen Crystalthorn
Wow, that picture brings back a lot of memories.
The picture is of a submarine Maneuvering (control room) for the nuclear propulsion.
On the left the panel with two wheels are the throttles, they control steam to the main engines (steam turbines) the bigger wheel is to go forward, the smaller wheel is to go backward.
The center panel is the reactor control panel. That is where you insert and raise the control rods in the nuclear reactor to change reactor power. There are also switches to control the reactor coolant pumps.
The panel on the right is the electrical distribution panel where you control the submarines electrical power from.
The simulator looks like the one from the S3G prototype in Ballston Spa, NY. I was stationed there during their decommisioning as a prototype instructor back about 15 years ago.
Not sure, but the guy in the photo could be Hyman Rickover, the father of Naval Nuclear Power, Although he looks heftier than I remember him.
By the way this is all highly classified information, and if I were to tell you any more, I would have to kill you and eat your brain.
That is all.
Posted: September 22, 2004, 8:28 pm
by Kelshara
Hannibal!
Posted: September 22, 2004, 8:36 pm
by Animalor
That thing doesn't look very ergonomic =)
Posted: September 22, 2004, 9:20 pm
by Siji
Syndaen Crystalthorn wrote:eat your brain.
You'd likely starve..