This is a photo printed in Popular Mechanics in 1954 of the personal home computer.
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snopez sez: FAKEz!
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp
it was a fark photoshop submission.
A very poor PS fake..... people really dont try as hard as they used too...
The printer/keyboard is very funny...and the moniter being a actuall tv! 
The shadows dont even match... and did personal computers even exsist in 1954?
Lol, that dood standing there has all the wrong light on him and he looks terribly
2D, aside from the fact that he is too small.
Well I feel stupid for reposting it.
Pssh, I think it's a great fake. Had me going.
Well I feel stupid for reposting it.
Dont feel stupid for reporting it. It could happen to anyone. 
And desides Not to far back I posted a pic of the 4th gen iPod that was a fake...and before that I posted a pic of tiger that was a mock-up from SpyMac, dont let this put you down. 
I found this one:
Its an IBM 7094 - the skirt length tells its about early 60es though.
Machine specs:
32 KByte RAM (each Byte has 36 Bits here)
850,000 instructions per second (0.85 MHz / 0.00085 GHz)
The standing lady is changing a removable hard disk with a
total capacity of 4 MBytes.
Price in 1965: $3.5 Million.
The computer itself is the middle apparatus at the wall. On it, a punchcard
scanner/reader/mixer/writer, to the left, a piano size line printer.
The wardobe on the right is for two tape storage devices of 10 MBytes
each.
Not shown on the picture is the programmer who would write down his code
on paper, hand it to a clerk who would write it cleanly onto cards or hand
punch it for the seated lady to type it or stuff it into the card reader.
It's called a 'minicomputer' so now you know now why your desktop PC
can be called a microcomputer - it is microscopic only in comparizon.
Actualy, that is not 7094... it is a 1440 Data Processing System.
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits...2423PH1440.html
That photo was a hard one to track down, but the console was what gave it away.
Here is what a complete 7094 looked like.
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits...ame_PP7094.html
Takes up almost an entire room.
And max. external disk capacity was 234,000,000 characters on an IBM 2302 model 2 disk storage unit.. and they were very rare.
Core memory storage was an IBM 7302 with 32,768 36-Bit Words
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