On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Tore S Bekkedal wrote:
> That is the most obvious fake I have ever seen. It made its rounds on
> IRC as a joke about two months ago.
>
> It is a fake, and a very bad one at that. The worst job is the paper
> coming down from the "teletype".
Wow, you're right. I got totally duped. I looked at the photo for all
but 2 seconds :(
> But isn't the typewriter a horribly stretched DECWriter? And did they
> even have sprocket feed paper in 1954?
>
> Heck, FORTRAN didn't even exist in '54, did it?
Well, it was begun in 1954.
> And, I mean, come on, a large <US name for boat steering wheel>?
Nice touch.
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