Would you believe this?

[Sidoh]

Just say yes or no.  If you use references, don't list them until I give my overview, please.

[Joe]

Yes. ROT13: V'ir frra vg orsber.

[rabbit]

Yes.  I saw that machine with my own eyes.

@Joe: wow.  Shut up with your ROT.  It's not even effective.

[trust]

yes

[MyndFyre]

ROT13: V'ir frra vg orsber.

ROT13(ROT13(ROT13(Joe))) = Dum

[ZeroX]

My digital watch iam wearing could probally do 100x what that "Home comptuer can"

so Yes.

[MyndFyre]

They were dead-on, though, when they say the technology needed hadn't yet been invented.

You know what it was?

I'll give you a hint:

[ZeroX]

Why the fuck is there a stearing wheel in that pic?

[Joe]

That's a mouse retard. <3.

[Sidoh]

You're all wrong!

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

That machine is a display for submarines, not the home computer.  I thought it was pretty believable, but the absence of a comma in the "However<,> ..." portion of the sniplet made me skeptical.

@ MyndFyre: Transistor... vacuum tubes don't work very well.

[MyndFyre]

You're all wrong!

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

That machine is a display for submarines, not the home computer.  I thought it was pretty believable, but the absence of a comma in the "However<,> ..." portion of the sniplet made me skeptical.

@ MyndFyre: Transistor... vacuum tubes don't work very well.

Hehehehe.  I'm pretty sure I've seen this before too, and it was debunked then, but still -- this can't be far from what the 1950's neanderthals believed.

And you're right!  That is a transistor! 

[Sidoh]

Hehehehe.  I'm pretty sure I've seen this before too, and it was debunked then, but still -- this can't be far from what the 1950's neanderthals believed.

And you're right!  That is a transistor! 

Hehe, yeah.  I remember hearing things saying that there would be no market for PC's in the future... tell that to Gateway and Dell!

[GameSnake]

Hehehehe.  I'm pretty sure I've seen this before too, and it was debunked then, but still -- this can't be far from what the 1950's neanderthals believed.

And you're right!  That is a transistor! 

Hehe, yeah.  I remember hearing things saying that there would be no market for PC's in the future... tell that to Gateway and Dell!

Or microsoft, ay?

[Sidoh]

Or microsoft, ay?

Yeah, I guess.  I think Dell and Gateway are more valid examples, though. :p

[iago]

You're all wrong!

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

That machine is a display for submarines, not the home computer.  I thought it was pretty believable, but the absence of a comma in the "However<,> ..." portion of the sniplet made me skeptical.

@ MyndFyre: Transistor... vacuum tubes don't work very well.

Hehehehe.  I'm pretty sure I've seen this before too, and it was debunked then, but still -- this can't be far from what the 1950's neanderthals believed.

And you're right!  That is a transistor! 

It is perfectly understandable that they imagined computers to look like that.  We are constantly doing what they said was impossible 20 years ago (my prof who did his Comp Sci degree 20 years ago especially believes that). 

Also, it's an NPN transistor -- when making circuits, you have to be careful not to get it backwards, otherwise nothing will work.  Trust me