They built a second Difference Engine that is currently on loan to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. CA. I hope they get an Analytical Engine in the future. http://www.computerhistory.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Space The Robot: The Robot is a Class M-3 Model B9, General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot, which had no given name. Although a machine endowed with superhuman strength and futuristic weaponry, he often displayed human characteristics such as laughter, sadness, and mockery as well as singing and playing the guitar. The Robot was performed by Bob May in a prop costume built by Bob Stewart. The voice was dubbed by Dick Tufeld, who was also the series' narrator. The Robot was designed by Robert Kinoshita, whose other cybernetic claim to fame is as the designer of Forbidden Planet's Robby the Robot. Robby appears in LIS #20 "War of the Robots", and the first episode of season three; "Condemned of Space".

Looks like something out of the movies Ice Station Zebra or The Thing.

The VT100 terminal was introduced in 1978. I can't remember if it was the same terminals we used back then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100

We used 9600 baud terminals connected to a mainframe in the 1970's and19.2K terminals in the early 1980's when I worked at a company that made computer terminals. The modem I used at home in the early 1980's was 150 / 300 baud. I have no idea what the internet connection was but emails were sent in batches so you had to wait a hour of so for a response.

This Wikipedia article shows the modem types and years released. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem

During the first two years of college we used punched cards to program in FORTRAN. One day a few years ago at Fry's I saw a box labelled FOTRAN for Visual Studio and thought about buying it. In the last two years of college we used internet terminals when it was call DARPNET or ARPANET. My first home computer was a TRS-80.

I started using the internet around 1978 when I was in college. We had super fast 9600 baud terminals back then and about a dozen Universities were connected to the internet at that time. After graduation I had Compuserve which if I remember right it costs ten dollars a month plus additional time while online. It the 90's AOL bought Compuserve and I switched over to Netscape for email. During most of the 80's I used dial up bulletin boards for games and discussion boards.

Carpool and you will be able to put in the pants of the passenger.

The current apartment neighbors are a bunch of idiots that can't close a door, drawer or cabinet without slamming it. Now all I have to do is place a speaker near the wall and have it play some annoying sound back to the neighbors each time they slam a door.

I accidentally dropped my natural organic medicine in them. I planted it myself and have a prescription.

I was walking and testing and you just hit me.

I did see a show where they retrieved a piece of metal from the bottom of the ocean and determined that the metal was brittle in cold water. In this show they thought the metal was weak and that is why the rivets popped off. If the rivets didn't pop off the Titanic would have floated a few hours longer. They also mentioned the shipyard used steel created with a new manufacturing process.

They must of had a contract with Halliburton

I could use something like this to silence the neighbors barking dogs and the sound of the "big foot" stomping around upstairs.