Definately something Captain Nemo would find interesting. I started life as a computer op, we ran something called an IBM 3090, watercooled and surrounded by 3 ton air conditioners, 14 operators mounting tapes and feeding printers paper. That was in 1977, the PC i am on at the moment is monumentally more powerful and the only a/c I have is the window open in the summer. All the comms were 1200 baud or 2400 bps wooden, yes wooden modems provided by the old GPO (General Post office) full of valves and Bakerlite knobs. Great pic Q!

the wheel is for scrollimg-duh

I thought the wheel was for driving down the information superhighway. Looks like it came from a '64 Chevy Impala, so it's got a great horn.

Excellent speculation, fellas. Since this technology is so far into the future, we have no choice but to assume the functionality of each of these advanced modules.

I personally thought the wheel was what Conan the Barbarian cranks to make it go.

Scrolling makes sense, but what does it scroll? The monitor hanging from the ceiling or the enormous spool of paper behind the keyboard console?

It's funny that the article says this is what a home computer "could look like in the year 2004."
Did they just weld a bunch of things together and say it looks futuristic? Half of these things look like they belong in the belly of a submarine.

Whatever the case, I think I want one. I'll dedicate a whole room of my house to this contraption.

I would create said sub belly in my lounge floor and have a heavy heavy hatch like the front emergency exit on said sub. Yes, this what I`ll do

Source and date?

Curry sauce and Medjool Dates PostMod. Good to hear from you....how you been?

I've been fine--just really busy with stuff that keeps me away from Brink. Temporarily, I hope. Thanks for asking.

no clue the source and date. it was emailed to me

Perfect illustration of an unimaginative (yet hilarious) extrapolative "future prediction" attempt... I was watching a sci-fi film made just before flat screen monitors were invented; the spacecraft interiors are filled with crt monitors with lo-fi images - in the "future!" And, yeah, what does that big wheel do?