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Typhoon
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September 14, 2005, 09:06:15 AM »
WHAT is the purpose for the steering wheel?
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BrokenPaw
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September 14, 2005, 09:13:13 AM »
If I recall correctly, Typhoon, that pic is the result of a photoshop contest fark.com... The actual thing in the photo is some sort of pump-control console or something like that.
-BP
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Seek out wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it also in simple stones and fragile herbs and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the song of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magic, for it is here that the old secrets are still preserved.
Typhoon
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September 14, 2005, 09:21:12 AM »
Figured as much. Good for a laugh anyway. I'll have to dig up my copy of an ad for a $10,000 386 computer...
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K Frame
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September 14, 2005, 09:23:19 AM »
Yep, it's a complete and total fabrication.
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Carbon Monoxide, sucking the life out of idiots, 'tards, and fools since man tamed fire.
jefnvk
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I'll sleep away the days and ride the nights...
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September 14, 2005, 09:33:36 AM »
Guess we were ahead of the ball on that one, huh? Unlike those floating cars we were suposed to have by now
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I still say 'Give Detroit to Canada'
Larry Ashcraft
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September 14, 2005, 09:56:11 AM »
Geeze, I used a computer like that for my Fortran II lab (1967 if you must know).
And no, it didn't have a steering wheel on it.
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griz
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September 14, 2005, 10:16:42 AM »
It's the predecessor to Nintendo? Probably has tail fins on it somewhere.
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Sent from a stone age computer via an ordinary keyboard.
Jamisjockey
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September 14, 2005, 10:17:57 AM »
Complete hoax.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp
According to snopes, the man is photoshopped in, and the console is that from a Submarine exhibit in the Smithsonian.
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JD
The price of a lottery ticket seems to be the maximum most folks are willing to risk toward the dream of becoming a one-percenter. “Robert Hollis”
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September 14, 2005, 04:48:42 PM »
Heh! One of my Computer Science profs showed that photo during one of his lectures. He thought it was the real deal.
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