Those look neat, I think.
Cool, Daddy-o, cool-The Predicta TV set is back!
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I'd love to have one of the color tube ones. But a flatscreen? Nah.
Gotta agree -- it just doesn't work.
If I had a ton of money (and the technical know-how), I'd love to take one of the CRT Predictas and hook it up to a custom steampunk/typwriter computer body like this one. It would be completely useless for anything other than web browsing, but boy would it be fun.
If I had a ton of money (and the technical know-how), I'd love to take one of the CRT Predictas and hook it up to a custom steampunk/typwriter computer body like this one. It would be completely useless for anything other than web browsing, but boy would it be fun.
That would be a rather jarring mix of period styles. The Predicta would go much better with something that looks like this.
You'll like this:
http://bifsniff.com/technology/steampunk-brazil-computer-i-want-one
The ironic thing is this isn't that far off from what the battleship Orion would have had--mechanical firecontrol computers too, perhaps:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer
My idea for a starship bridge is more NuBSG NORAD tech. Push buttons, nixie tubes, etc. All tech would be used. flatscreens, tube screens at only Spocks station under the cowl/hood, etc. Imagine all the cool knobs and switches on early 8-tracks, with stereo choice looking like a reticule/pipper. That sort of thing.
Now I wonder if MEMs and nano tech might give second life to earlier electromechanical devices. I'm thinking that a nano curta calculator could be made smaller than many chip based designs:
http://www.curta.org/
Even though Curta dates to WWII (Dieselpunk) and this dates to much earlier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
Both look more steampunk than anything else--especially if you have nice brass.
Rope memory, mechanical fire contols, clockwork mechanisms might be given new life at the ultra small scale, and perhaps be immune to EMP if made of ceramics and what not.
http://bifsniff.com/technology/steampunk-brazil-computer-i-want-one
The ironic thing is this isn't that far off from what the battleship Orion would have had--mechanical firecontrol computers too, perhaps:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer
My idea for a starship bridge is more NuBSG NORAD tech. Push buttons, nixie tubes, etc. All tech would be used. flatscreens, tube screens at only Spocks station under the cowl/hood, etc. Imagine all the cool knobs and switches on early 8-tracks, with stereo choice looking like a reticule/pipper. That sort of thing.
Now I wonder if MEMs and nano tech might give second life to earlier electromechanical devices. I'm thinking that a nano curta calculator could be made smaller than many chip based designs:
http://www.curta.org/
Even though Curta dates to WWII (Dieselpunk) and this dates to much earlier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
Both look more steampunk than anything else--especially if you have nice brass.
Rope memory, mechanical fire contols, clockwork mechanisms might be given new life at the ultra small scale, and perhaps be immune to EMP if made of ceramics and what not.
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