In 1954 RAND corporation built a mock up of a home computer. They said, it would take 50 years for the technology to allow this kind of computer. Below the cut is their fairly accurate prediction about what a computer would look like. I think they almost hit it dead on…
Edit: Please note: Thanks to muelos this is in fact a hoax.
(Make sure to read the caption under the picture)
Personally, I don’t know where I’d be today if I didn’t have my captain’s wheel.
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http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp
Hey at least they got the part about a TTY interface and Fortran right.
It’s been downhill since they snuck in all this C nonsense.
Gaming geek observation: patently this is what Marc had in mind with the specs for shipboard computers in the original Traveller.
(Some urban myths DESERVE to be true!)