This Photo was taken from the 1954 (51 years ago)! issue of Popular Mechanic Magazine.

Be sure to read the text under the photo......Enjoy!

it looks doctored.

funny, though. i love what the future used to be.

We actually have this exact one hanging in the office...

Not doctored, ryanpederson ...

... the actual photo from the 1954 issue of Popular Mechanic Magazine.

I love the "steering wheel". What the...???

Ha.

That's funny... I like the steering wheel...

Slim,

I fell for this one too. Being in a high tech industry myself, I forwarded this to a bunch of friends before one of them set me straight. Actually, ryanpedersen is right.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp 

elrico

i thought something looked "off" with the keyboard in front. plus, the guy looks pasted in.

I think those wheels are for lowering the Nuke Fuel Rods into the reactor for the power.....

Goood stuff.....

What's so damn funny, that's the spitting image of my home computer that I'm using to type this reply. What I want to know is how did Rickamaven get into my home and who took the picture (adroomi).

JonR

I also think the keyboard looks "wrong" for the picture.

i don't care if it is photoshopped, it still looks funny.

i worked at rocketdyne in the early 60's and they had a computer in a special building, in a special environmentally controlled room, humidity, temperature.

the core (processor) was several feet tall and encased in glass. it consisted of a series of wires evenly spaced and running from side to side and top to bottom with a small ring where ever three wires met.

the last time i talked to one of my engineer friends who i worked back then with, said it had less memory then a throw away calculator,

but we did get to the moon and back.

Geez...Max von Sydow hasn't aged a day, has he?

yep... fake... that keyboard is from early 1970's

It would have had an old remington typewriter keyboard in the 50's

I like the floor model TV hanging from the wall ...

Al, I thought it was Eisenhower!

SOMETIMES....... Snopes sucks! I thought it was a hilarious story!

They didn't have a mouse back then. The wheel is to scroll left and scroll right.

Real or Not, Fake, or Got Faked out ... it is still funny.

I would have belived it, if it wasn't for the "steering wheel" that gives it away as a fake.
John L