Posted on Jul 12, 2015
SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S.
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The news and RallyPoint (and other sites) are filled with prognostications from the "worlds experts"

Here is one of their past guesses.
Can you think of more?
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PO2 Steven Erickson
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Westinghouse S5W nuclear reactor control panels... SPCP, RPCP and EPCP.
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SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S.
SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S.
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OK .. what about the steering wheels?
Was this necessary to power the computer?
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PO2 Peter Klein
PO2 Peter Klein
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You turn the handle with one hand to power the computer and type with the other.
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PO2 Steven Erickson
PO2 Steven Erickson
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Two handles. One for INPUT and one for OUTPUT.

Guy in middle controls the CPU. Guy on the right ensured power to all the peripherals.
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Capt Seid Waddell
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Edited 9 y ago
Prediction is very hard, especially about the future - Yogi Berra.
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SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S.
SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S.
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One of my favorites is "Artificial Intelligence is a mere 10 years in the future, and has been for the last several decades"
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SFC William Farrell
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I worked on that computer back in 1974!
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Capt Seid Waddell
Capt Seid Waddell
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SFC William Farrell, what were the steering wheels for?
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SFC William Farrell
SFC William Farrell
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Thats how i drove to the midnight shift Capt Seid Waddell! I've been working on computers since I got my first job as a computer operator back in 1974. I was waiting to get on the NYPD and took the job just to pay the bills. Been working in them ever since in one way or another. When i took my son to the Boston computer Museum when he was 12, and that was 20 years ago, every piece of equipment there I had worked on. I said to my son, i ought to hop in a display case as I've operated every one of the machines on display. The Internet was just taking old then and I was setting teachers up with dial up connections and the Netscape browser which they had on display!
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