[Sussex] My home computer

[Steve Dobson]

Damn you Andy

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 13:26 +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> 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.

I bet you're the kind of person who reads the last page of a murder
mystery to find out whodunit.  I much preferred the fantasy.  :-)

Steve
-- 
Steve Dobson

gossip, n.:
Hearing something you like about someone you don't.
-- Earl Wilson

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