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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 7, 2010 21:39:18 GMT
Bet you wish you had one of these babies in your home! Naaah -- not in our lifetimes. It's too futuristic. warning: rampant sexism |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2010 4:38:28 GMT
I love the dials to twist and also the wiring of the "backup circuits."
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 8, 2010 5:02:40 GMT
Did you see the French video in the sidebar? Even though parts of the OP video are incorporated, the French one is much more serious. They were also thinking widescreen plasma back then, too!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2010 5:57:00 GMT
What I find strange is they appeared to think that we would have no need for a keyboard.
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Post by spindrift on Feb 8, 2010 9:55:48 GMT
Bixa - I also watched the clip about the Internet made in 1993. I remember that my son was 12 and I was so excited about the news that the Internet could be tried out somewhere on the Tottenham Court Road. I offered to take him there to see this new wonder but he didn't seem very interested!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 8, 2010 16:51:32 GMT
Re: the keyboard -- that part of the activation process seemed pretty murky. Note the little boy playing chess in the French video. He's using real pieces and the moves are showing up on the monitor. Maybe some kind of electronic pad was envisioned. Nothing but the low-tech switches and knobs are shown in the first video, though
Spindrift, I may have mentioned this somewhere else, but @1973 at an IBM training course the instructor showed us how in the near future it was going to be possible to type something in one office and have it appear instantly in another. We marveled! Probably a 12-year-old was realistically envisioning office equipment rather than something really cool like telepathy, thus his apathy.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2010 18:12:20 GMT
Most of the "fun" of computers was invented when people started getting bored. That's how "Pong" was invented.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 8, 2010 19:38:18 GMT
"pong" ~~ a word I associate with really strong body odor. This is presumably not that to which you refer. A game?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2010 20:43:08 GMT
The first video arcade game of all time. A white dot bouncing back and forth between two mobile rectangles.  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 8, 2010 21:19:56 GMT
Oh yes -- I remember that! It seems that overnight they appeared any place that might have a tv set. This was back when bars might be likely to have a small set in the place for important news stories or big sports events. But as soon as Pong came on the scene, the damned thing was on all the time, inexorably drawing the eye to it.
Remember the worry that those games would "etch" your tv screen?
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