What a computer would have looked like in a RR agents office...lets say...1920 or so...
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The rest of the story.. http://steampunkworkshop.com/lcd.shtml
That guy must have a lot of free time on his hands. He's made a lot of other stuff that looks fairly interesting. His steam car or motorcycle seems like an interesting idea. I wonder how much of a hassle it would be to actually drive a steam powered vehicle on a highway. I'm sure it would take some special kind of special state permission ect. It definately wouldn't be a daily driver.
While I was a clerk/agent out in the field (Savannah, then Tennille) before CYO, I kept telling myself "Man, I was born 40-50 years too late".........
To really be in that job without a computer to eventually replace it must have been interesting.