Scientist predict the future...50 years ago

NothingGained · Post by **NothingGained** » 08 Oct 2004, 11:28

Check this link out... maybe our predictions will also be as ridiculous as this and we will have kick as tech by 2010!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v501/ ... r/puta.jpg

po10cy · Post by **po10cy** » 08 Oct 2004, 11:34

Damn, I am glad scientists can also be wrong. Theres no way the pc would become the centre of home entertainment looking like that. It looks more like some kind of truck with that steering wheel thing. You probably had to turn some kind of crankshaft, you know wind it up, before it would work. Let me also guess, it is powered by petrol, and you need to use a chisel and hammer to input data through a slab of stone

Post by **OnlyOneKenobi** » 08 Oct 2004, 11:37

Hehe scientists predictions can sure be funny sometimes. One the one hand they thought we'd have flying cars by now, on the other hand, they thought PC's would look like that... 8O

Post by **Y0da** » 08 Oct 2004, 11:50

Hehe...I wonder what fps DoomIII would get on that baby.

Dom · Post by **Dom** » 08 Oct 2004, 12:25

Yuck... what a horrid looking thing!

Thankfully PC's look a whole lot nicer than that actually (and are much, much smaller)!

Uranium · Post by **Uranium** » 08 Oct 2004, 12:56

That THING belongs in the past, not the future - it looks like the first electronic computer ever made.

Dakes · Post by **Dakes** » 08 Oct 2004, 13:09

*off topic*

Scientists have finally isolated the gene that make scientists isolate the gene

MaZZwaR · Post by **MaZZwaR** » 08 Oct 2004, 13:25

Y0da wrote:Hehe...I wonder what fps DoomIII would get on that baby.

don't laugh, that's my computer!!!!!!!!!!!!!

brabham · Post by **brabham** » 08 Oct 2004, 13:29

f33r how larney that '72cm' monitor checks mounted on the wall.

Post by **OnlyOneKenobi** » 08 Oct 2004, 13:30

MaZZwaR wrote:
Y0da wrote:Hehe...I wonder what fps DoomIII would get on that baby.
don't laugh, that's my computer!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, how many FPS do you get in Doom 3?

Uranium · Post by **Uranium** » 08 Oct 2004, 13:34

It might even have vacuum tubes, and the same type of mechanical dials used in the 1960s for output

Alien_Hitter · Post by **Alien_Hitter** » 08 Oct 2004, 13:39

i'd say aboot 30 fpm (frames per minute)

wow you need a code 14 to operate that

to be techie on that thing you probably need
to be a diesel mechanic, look at those guages,
just checking them is a multitasking operation
in its own rights, overheating also probably caused
the vacuum tubes to explode soo no oc'ing that
baby, so your stuck with +/-10 hz processing power

thank heavens they were wrong

Uranium · Post by **Uranium** » 08 Oct 2004, 13:44

thank heavens they were wrong

I second that.

Demoraliser · Post by **Demoraliser** » 08 Oct 2004, 13:55

Hmmm, is that thing mobile?

NothingGained · Post by **NothingGained** » 08 Oct 2004, 14:03

yeah I wonder where the laptop version of that is...probably on the 10ton truck outside attached to its own generator!

Uranium · Post by **Uranium** » 08 Oct 2004, 14:11

It probably needs a nuclear fusion reactor to power it.

Demoraliser · Post by **Demoraliser** » 08 Oct 2004, 14:29

*off topic*
@NothingGained: is your avvy based on the movie Donni Darko? Man that movie rocked!

GreyWolf · Post by **GreyWolf** » 08 Oct 2004, 14:55

You people have no sense of beauty... I think it would really be cool to have your PC desk full of those old dials. You could hook them up to be your temperature sensors/fan speed sensors/HDD usage/Ram usage/SPU usage. And you could have one of those huge "franksenstien" switches to turn on your computer, and those big square back lit switches to activate fans and lights and stuff. Then you could strip your monitr down and suspend it from the ceiling. No, wait, better yet, set up a dual monitor system in the same way.

It would be like living as some evil genius from a James bond movie...AWESOME!

Yuna · Post by **Yuna** » 08 Oct 2004, 15:15

Nothing was this not Freespirals topic at nag?

NothingGained · Post by **NothingGained** » 08 Oct 2004, 15:25

Demoraliser wrote:*off topic*
@NothingGained: is your avvy based on the movie Donni Darko? Man that movie rocked!

yeah dude...that is my fav movie of all time!!

*waits for other people to say "No Way dude"*

Yuna wrote:Nothing was this not Freespirals topic at nag?

Nice to see you hear again Yuna! Well, to be quite honest i can't really say!...Either don't remember or weren't on the NAG forums for that long!

Yuna · Post by **Yuna** » 08 Oct 2004, 15:30

It's just very quite over there. Was there for a while cause I had trouble login in here today. I was wondering what you guys were up

?

NothingGained · Post by **NothingGained** » 08 Oct 2004, 15:37

Good to see you back here Yuna and kewl avatar! Yeah the NAG forums is pretty quiet today. Just the usual bickering and about this whole NAG issue again.. which i think is really getting boring now but anyway...I really like it here though! It feels like at NAG everything is so serious but here you can just be!

Uranium · Post by **Uranium** » 08 Oct 2004, 16:14

That's more like it.

Leigh · Post by **Leigh** » 08 Oct 2004, 16:23

LOL That pic is great!

"However the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home" - hehe yeah it wouldn't have been if our machines were so damn huge! We'd need to build an extra wing onto our homes just to put it in

I wonder what the purpose of the large wheel on it is?

Uranium · Post by **Uranium** » 08 Oct 2004, 16:24

No clue. Maybe magnets for the crygenic cooling.