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Old Oct 7, 2004 | 05:41 AM
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Scientists from RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a "home computer" could look in the year 2004. However the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems. With teletype interface and the Fortran language, the computer will be easy to use and onl

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Old Oct 7, 2004 | 10:39 AM
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Ah, the Czechoslovakian portable computer. The steering wheel is for, well, steering the thing when you take it somewhere.

It reminds me of the portable vacuum cleaner the two "Wild and Crazy" Czech brothers had.
 
Old Oct 7, 2004 | 10:51 AM
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i was thinking it was the mouse

what about the vacuum cleaner? don't tell me it got lawn mower motor on it.
 
Old Oct 7, 2004 | 11:32 AM
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The vacuum cleaner was a prop in an old Saturday Night Live routine with Steve Martin and Dan Akroyd playing two Czech brothers living in America. They had "large American bulges" in their pants and a portable vacuum cleaner the size of a 55 gallon drum they got from home that took two people to drag around the house. It was back when minaturization was all the craze, so it was funnier back then, I guess.

I hope that makes sense...
 
Old Oct 7, 2004 | 11:33 AM
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That old guy in the cool suit is the mouse.
 
Old Nov 24, 2004 | 10:16 PM
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The future.... Hell dude I'm typing on one of those bad boys right now! I still haven't figured out the steering whell yet though! I think that is one of the Bill Gates programs that you don't want, can't use, but can't remove or else all hell breaks loose!
 
Old Nov 24, 2004 | 11:44 PM
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I sold mine when I bought a Commodore 64.
 
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