Fortran - Re: Prediction from 50 years ago: Language of 2004 will be Fortran

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Re: Prediction from 50 years ago: Language of 2004 will be Fortran

Rich Townsend

2004-10-15, 3:56 am

N. Shamsundar wrote:
> I am not sure whether the attached B/W photograph is a hoax or not, and
> whether this newsgroup permits binary attachments, but I could not
> resist passing it on to old-time Fortran users.
>
> It shows an early concept of what a home computer might look like in
> 2004 (fifty years into the future).
>
> N. Shamsundar
> University of Houston

I think it is a hoax; the computer terminal looks as though it has been
cut-and-pasted onto an image of some "nucular" reactor control system
(note the wheel to get the control rods in and out!).

But it still made me laff....

:)

--
Dr Richard H D Townsend
Bartol Research Institute
University of Delaware

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