Re: I just want to know what the steering wheel is for...

["Steve Landess" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mary -
The list doesn't pass attachments other than text.

I know of the picture you sent, it was of a very old and large
computer-looking device with a steering wheel...

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

<Excerpt>
Claim:   Photograph shows RAND Corporation's 1954 design for a home
computer.

Status:   False.

Although the photograph displayed could represent what some people in the
early 1950s contemplated a "home computer" might look like (based on the
technology of the day), it isn't, as the accompanying text claims, a RAND
Corporation illustration from 1954 of a prototype "home computer." The
picture is actually an entry submitted to an image modification competition,
taken from an original photo of a submarine maneuvering room console found
on U.S. Navy web site, converted to grayscale, and modified to replace a
modern display panel and TV screen with pictures of a decades-old
teletype/printer and television (as well as to add the gray-suited man to
the left-hand side of the photo):

</Excerpt>

Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kern, Mary T" <MKern4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 10:12 AM
Subject: I just want to know what the steering wheel is for...


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