[Spridgets] ARE YOU TOO OLD TO DRIVE THIS CAR?
Kent McLean
kentmclean at comcast.net
Tue Sep 15 11:16:48 MDT 2009
rrengineer wrote:
> You drive this car with a joystick *
> *
> The influence of video games in our lives *
Nah. A joystick is just the evolution of a tiller, which has been around
since some guy named da Vinci in 1478. It even had programmable steering.
Yeah, *that* da Vinci. Benz used one in 1886.
<http://www.3wheelers.com/leonardo.htmlhttp://www.3wheelers.com/leonardo.html>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Benz_Patent_Motorwagen_1886_(Replica).jpg>
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Kent McLean
'56 100 BN2
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