Image that duped McNealy
At the Oracle OpenWorld show, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy made fun of a picture supposedly from the magazine "Popular Mechanics" showing how people in 1954 envisioned the home computer. Unbeknownst to him, it's a doctored photo.
The configuration approximates the S5W nuclear power plant: S = Submarine, 5 = 5th version, W = Made by Westinghouse. This design was commissioned in 1959 with the USS Skipjack. The last sub to use it was the SSBN-640 Benjamin Franklin, which was decommissioned in 1963.
I won't even get started on why someone with a teleprinter would want a monitor in the first place.
Sheesh. Rule #1 in spotting a hoax: if it's a little too convenient, it probably is.
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But, not to spoil the dream, that would look nice with a large computer, say one with a four-foot by six-foot monitor.
a DEC printing termianl from the 70's!
Printing was dot matrix at 30 cps, 132 columns.
The characters were formed from 7 x 7 dots.
The interface was RS-232/V.24 (300 baud)
How times have changed!