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« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2005, 03:05:10 AM »
Looks just like my 1998 PC except mine has a wooden 'ships wheel' instead of the chrome one in the picture.  :)  :)  :)
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« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2005, 03:12:38 AM »
I'm glad that somewhere along the way someone decided to use a mouse instead of that wheel!  I wonder if that is just a printer or is it one of those all-in-one jobs with scanner copier printer. :)
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Beretta Silver Pigeon Sporting 20g 28"
Ithaca (SKB) Model 500 Skeet 28g 28"
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Savage 93 in 17HMR w/ Mueller APV 4.5-14
Winchester 94 mint Built in 1951
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« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2005, 06:34:25 AM »
Nice...And I wanted a laptop.
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« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2005, 11:13:48 AM »
That looks suspiciously like the "throttle board" on my old 1200psi superheated steam turbine powered guided missile cruiser, CG-20 USS Richmond K. Turner, "Americas Battle Cruiser", formerly, DLG-20, the "30 Knot Ghost of the Vietnam Coast". The big wheel is the ahead throttle and the small one is the reverse. Turning the wheel opens or closes a series of poppet valves to allow more or less steam to enter the turbine to adjust speed. The gauges all show steam pressures on the boilers, oil pressures on all the bearings, and temperature and vacuum level on the main condenser, also tachometer to indicate shaft rpms.

I'm not sure what the printer would be for, maybe a way of switching the old sound powered telephone from the bridge to remote teletype.