L’ordinateur sur lequel vous lisez ces lignes… ou quand Richard, la soixantaine, m’envoie un mail…
The computer you read this on… or when Richard, in his sixties, send me a mail…
Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a “home computer” could look like 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.
Legend to this picture, in 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine
Ou en français, “Les scientifiques de RAND Corporation ont créé une maquette pour montrer à quoi un ordinateur personnel pourrait ressembler en 2004. Cependant la technologie nécessaire ne sera pas abordable pour les foyers moyens. En outre, les scientifiques reconnaissent volontier que l’ordinateur utilisera des technologies qu’il reste encore à inventer pour effectivement fonctionner, mais d’ici 50 ans, le progrès scientifique devrait pouvoir résoudre ces problèmes. Avec une interface teletype et le langage Fortran, l’ordinateur sera facile d’utilisation.”
Pour la petite histoire, l’interface teletype est une interface de programmation ligne par ligne, à opposer aux interfaces pleine écran que l’on connait aujourd’hui et le Fortran venait juste de naître cette année-là…
Ca ouvre les esprits et on se prend vite à imaginer des trucs complétement dingues pour 2054 !!!
For the record, a teletype interface is a line-by-line programming interface, to be compared to the full-screen interfaces we all know today and Fortran has just been invented this very year…
This is mind-opening and one can only start to imagine those simply insane devices we’ll have in 2054 !!!
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steve, Il y a 2 ans, 7 moiss
I can’t read French… but I hope you’re telling everyone that this picture is a hoax, because it is. It’s mostly a doctored up photo of nuclear submarine propulsion room.
Arno, Il y a 2 ans, 7 moiss
The blue boxes are just a (very approximative) translation of the french in english…
So this is an hoax ? How disappointing. And here I thought, since it came from a guy that was actually already born in the fifties, he found this in one of the many boxes he is unpacking in his new retirement place…
Disappointing indeed.
Tomate Farcie, Il y a 2 ans, 7 moiss
Too bad. Who was it, though, who said that personal computers were an impossible market to develop and a venture doomed to fail? I can’t remember who it was but somebody did say that in the 70’s or 80’s. Does anyone remember?