#194563 - 09/19/0407:19 PMRe: 'Home Computer' in the year 2004
[Re: Larry]
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Why do some of the elements looks Photoshopped to me...?<br><br>Like the guy, and the TV mounted on the wall for example...<br><br>[color:red]C'mon...you know me.</font color=red>
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Yeah... some of that looks fabricated. Too funny to be true kind of thing. The keyboard looks out of place to be dated 1964... <br><br>--<br>http://www.stevenkimband.com/
Photoshop, yep, that was my imppression too. Look at the paper, the TV, the KB, and even the guy. Still a good joke, but unlikely to be the prediciton of 40 years ago. Also, if they were to predict a computer back then, it would have been for the year 2000 to make it an even number.<br><br>_________________________________________<br>You expect me to sign here or somethin?
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#194567 - 09/20/0405:03 PMRe: 'Home Computer' in the year 2004
[Re: Larry]
LoveTheBomb
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this is definitely a FAKE because, while FORTRAN was created in 1954, it wasn't commercially available outside IBM until 1957.<br><br>geez... I programed FORTRAN last spring in one of my computer classes... I don't like working with languages older than my dad<br><br>-Matt<br><br>
#194568 - 09/20/0405:18 PMRe: 'Home Computer' in the year 2004
[Re: LoveTheBomb]
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FORTRAN was the standard language taught in beginning comp sci courses back when I was in college. I still remember doing the punch cards and debugging by going through reams and reams of printer paper <br><br>
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FORTRAN is still the best language for doing mathmatical work. It all comes down to storing of matrices by column first, then by row. C is the other way around. While C seems to make more sense, it's faster for most matrix calculations if the data is stored by columns.<br><br>
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