A 1965 Ford Falcon Taking Cover In The Rain.

I was at work and one of my coworkers (she’s in her late 30s) abruptly brought up a lady asking an AI questions like this on some vertical video platform. She thought it was enlightening and thought provoking.

It was literally just nonsense, the girl and the AI were just making stuff up together, each encouraging the other, compounding the stupidity. Exactly what you described here.

I was dumbfounded, I just nodded along to hit each dialogue option and go somewhere else. We’re not doing well..

What do you think would surprise a person from the 1950s most about modern computers?

How disposable they've become. We toss away computers like old socks.

How we got away from the model of timesharing for so long, only to go right back to cloud computing. People were so eager to personalize the experience, it's why things like the PDP-1 came into existance in the late 50s.

How much software went from this thing that was freely, openly shared as just a point of fact to a world where people pay for software regularly.

How much people trust a computer to think for them. A computer cannot think, it can only do math really fast, *you* have to think about how to make use of that platform to make your workload easier. People using computers in the 50s understood this implicitly, and now some people want shitty autocomplete to do the hard part for them. The human tasks that are worth doing, but that's a whole rant in itself.

How much computers just get powered off, or just run without doing anything, because of how plentiful and commonplace they are. In the 50s, no computer time was wasted, it was too expensive. If the machine was operational back then, it was busy.

Behold, a thing I saw.

Dude looks like a Sly Cooper villain

"do you want him to wear the little hat?"

"yes please"

This is what the future will look like? I can’t wait.

Home Office Life (2001)

I am visiting my parent's, this painting has always been hung in a prominent location through the houses they've owned. Funny to see it online.

Andrew Wyeth - Master bedroom (1965)

I wish I knew people my age out here.

Very nice. Okay, I just spoke with him because I didn’t want to give you the wrong information. The first machine was a Photon machine, it would have been the one built into a desk, the second machine was a CompuGraphic, now most of the machines you see online are just headliners, don’t ask me how that works, but there was more to it than just the desk and keyboard part. It would have been a large cabinet that accepted paper tape to go through the motions of setting everything up on the film. The last machine was a Xylogic, I can’t find any information on the machine, I can only get a tape controller card for a PDP 11.

Here is a website that was pretty informative for what the process may have looked like.