[Sussex] My home computer

[Andy Smith]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:19:30PM +0000, Steve Dobson wrote:
> > What purpose does the steering wheel have on the computer?
> 
> Note that there are two wheels.  They just happen to share a common
> point of rotation.
> 
> My guess is that this is from just after WW2.  Think valve technology.
> Those computers got hot.  I don't know if it is an urban myth or not but
> I when I first started with computers (1979) I was told that someone got
> trapped in the valve room and died from heatstroke.

I'm going to have to call hoax on this.  Computers did not have
steering wheels and dials.  Ever.  I don't believe that is an image
of a computer.  Also the text below does not read like text from
1954.

Funny, but a deliberate joke IMHO.

Cheers,
Andy

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