Can you guess what this is?

[immoderate]

This is for guesses only -- if you really know what it is, no fair.

If nobody gets it, I'll post the answer in a later post. Have fun! B-)

--IMM

[William769]

1. A computer?

[immoderate]

4. Nope.

:)

[BlueJazz]

2. Ice Machine ? Food Keeper?

[hwmnbn]

3. Fully stocked wet bar for pilots & crew?........nt

[immoderate]

8. Ahh -- good guess!

No. :P

[Atman]

5. Dick Cheney's hydraulic fluid purifier being loaded aboard AF2

:shrug:

.

[immoderate]

10. Nope. Too small for that!

[NYCGirl]

6. Cheney's pacemaker? NT

[Phredicles]

21. Nah, it's the charger for the battery for Cheney's pacemaker.

Or maybe it's just his regeneration chamber?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. It looks like it's got some sort of air filter.

Would that be a clue?

[sheerjoy]

9. I was around then....

hehehe that is the first computer...think it was like 5KB or some such...

[immoderate]

14. Nope.

And it's not fair if you know. The first computers were much larger than that. Mechanical flip-flops, then vacuum tubes, then magnetic core. Now don't give it away.

--IMM

[sheerjoy]

15. By computer I mean....

Its a hard disk in 1956....
The Volume and Size of 5MB memory storage in 1956.

[immoderate]

18. That's it.

But you don't listen. :hi:

--IMM

[sheerjoy]

23. OOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo crud

I jumped too fast... I am so sorry.... you are right... grrrr... am I banned?

[immoderate]

28. Most guessers won't see it.

Double secret probation for you.

--IMM

[sheerjoy]

40. Good

as soon as I saw it...my mind flew back... I was 15 and it was AMAZING! Hahhah.... so I just jumped in... thanks for kindness of not hitting me. I shall be more careful. Some of the guesses are terrific!

[immoderate]

44. There are some funny people here.

And welcome to DU! :hi:

--IMM

[Book Lover]

11. A "portable" computer?

[immoderate]

16. LLLLLLOL

:rofl:

--IMM

[Book Lover]

47. Oh but I was so close!

[Kingshakabobo]

53. LOL...the first lap-top... n/t

[hobbit709]

12. The cloning vat they grow the bushbots in

[joshcryer]

13. Is that the May Tag guy?

:P

[Swamp Rat]

17. Mr. Coffee's great-grandpa?

:D

[lpbk2713]

19. It's a Pan-American DC-6.

What do I win?

:shrug:

[immoderate]

22. A fork lift with a hernia.

:hi:

--IMM

[karlrschneider]

24. A free ticket on that DC6.

:D

[shain from kane]

20. A brick shithouse?

[Captain Angry]

25. Well, it looks like it says IBM at the upper right of the thing.

It also looks too big for the door it's going in.

That's a good one.

But with the cylinder in the middle, I'm guessing hard drive / storage system.

[sakabatou]

26. Looks like an electrical transformer

But I'm guessing it would be for the new eletrics in the planes. So a computer.

[IDemo]

27. Looks like a large electrical coil or transformer

for what purpose I couldn't tell you..

[Greyskye]

29. Looks like an old style hard drive.

Sometimes those huge disk platters wouldn't be perfectly balanced. They've been known to vibrate themselves across the floor before. Can't imagine that would have been too good for the data integrity though!

[immoderate]

33. It's the first.

In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data.

--IMM

[in_cog_ni_to]

52. OMG! That is UNBELIEVABLE! My have we come a long way with technology.

:)

[Gregorian]

39. I wonder how many megabytes it was.

Probably more like kilobytes.

I actually saw the prototype for the metal hard drive disc. Those were interesting days.

[immoderate]

46. 5 MB

--IMM

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

30. I'll Go With 'The Battery For The Dildo Bush Is Fuckin This Country With'.

[Canuckistanian]

31. Small nuclear bomb?

Don't know why I say that.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

32. That's easy!

It's one of those computer thingamajigs from back then. Duh!








Obviously I don't know exactly what it is but it was made by IBM so I know I'm close. :D

[immoderate]

34. Close.

See post #33.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

42. Oh. My. Goodness.

A 5MB HD, and today we have the 1 terabyte HD. Thanks for posting this. I find it fascinating how far we've advanced in the past 50 years.

[immoderate]

43. One of my friends was the first to get a hard drive for his Apple II.

It was 5 MB, cost $5000, and was bigger than a shoe box. The salesman said, "You'll never need another disk." Heh heh.

--IMM

[parasim]

49. ha ha... that's funny!

I just bought a 1GB flash drive. Doubles as a key fob.

[kestrel91316]

51. I have a 1 GB flash drive in my pencil drawer and it's smaller than a pack of gum.

[in_cog_ni_to]

35. XEROX machine? Word Processor? Radar machine? A wench for scuba diving?

I have no clue!

[immoderate]

45. See post #33.

--IMM

[Phredicles]

36. Rush Limbosevic's underwear hamper?

[Turbineguy]

37. That's easy!

it's a CRM-114 discriminator.

[immoderate]

41. That's still top secret.

--IMM

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

38. one worker and 5 supervisors

[Wednesdays]

48. No it's not.

It's a black-and-white photograph.

[maveric]

50. The cryogenic unit that holds Ted William's head?

Nah...thats an early 60's pic.
Well seeing that it says "IBM"on the side of it... I would imagine that its some type of computer.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

54. Are there monkeys in there?

I think I see monkeys.

[immoderate]

55. I think I see them too.

It's an optical illusion, or :scared:

--IMM