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Migoz2 said:
I, for one, used to watch Star Trek from the 70s till the 90s and want a device like a tricorder. We now all carry ones which are far more powerful than that around in our pockets and take them for granted.
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From the things predicted those times in SF (eg the Jetsons), one thing came out : we all got a computer in our home. And fortunately, they do not take a whole room as was thought then :

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Praefectus Praetorio said:
A musical encounter at the (Dublin?) airport
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My guess is Tottenham Court Road Underground station in London,
I spy lists of Northern Line and Central Line stations, and that's where they intersect
(or could be Bank station, the other route of the Northern Line crosses the Central there)
 
I am listening to a St. Louis Cardinals' baseball game and they mentioned riding the 'tram' to the top of the Gateway Arch. I rode the tram in '66 or '67 and again two years ago. These pods need a federal waiver to keep operating (they will never fit wheelchair in one) and are very tight for the five passengers squeezes in each capsule.

I think about this shit now...
 
Jollyrei said:
And what we're the three levers going to be for? It's a computer, not a construction crane.
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Well, back in the days…when you wanted a home computer, you had to build a computer home first.

It is a pre-digital age imagination of future computer technology, I guess. They still had diodes, and electro-mechanically moving switches inside their computers then.

I recall that, in the sixties, I heard telling about a man who was project manager for an 'advanced' computer project. The whole thing needed a home-sized housing to be constructed first. Assembly and testing of the computer itself took place on site, and it took nearly two years before it would be operational. But I would not be surprised that the whole thing had less memory and less calculation capacity than a today's dishwasher.

My guess is, that these levers in the Jetson's computer, were comparable to the function keys of our computer keyboards.
 
melissa said:
Hi,
I think this bit of the Forum could be put to better use, it seems to be dying slowly and only serves to replicate other bits of the site and hence confuse. We could open a coffee shop here where people can drop in just for a chat, post off topic pics, ask for and give advice and generally post anything that may be useful to others. In the past we have sought advice on technical stuff from Algabal, Jedakk, Hans and others, but if I wanted to refer back to the replies then where would they be? Many threads simply get buried after a few weeks. A typical example was Models to Crucify. Several people replied but it soon got lost. If The Coffee Shop was used often then it would stay on the first page and be an easy reference point. I've attached three pics which appear to be off topic but we have used all three in the past.
I know that Damian decolourised his pics before recolouring them. We use Adobe Photoshop Elements and I'm sure it has such a function but we can't get it to work.
Mel
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What? No women in the audience?
 
Eulalia said:
My guess is Tottenham Court Road Underground station in London,
I spy lists of Northern Line and Central Line stations, and that's where they intersect
(or could be Bank station, the other route of the Northern Line crosses the Central there)
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Well spotted, Eulalia, those signs are only clear in a few shots.

Confirmation if needed:

TfL and Yamaha Music launch '#Platform88' to place pianos across the Tube network

TfL and Yamaha Music launch ‘#Platform88’ to place pianos across the Tube network
tfl.gov.uk tfl.gov.uk
 
bellesouth said:
remembering the beeching cuts you might like this -

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Lovely song - just reeling off those English place-names make a 'found poem' -
I've taken the liberty of editing in the YouTube link.
Being pedantic, though - the line from St Erth to St Ives in Cornwall is, I think, still open,
and you can still get a train at Ambergate.

But for heart-gripping railway nostalgia, nothing can beat

 
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