What's wrong with this picture?

[D3v1L80Y]

This is a page from a children's book about Bill Gates. There is a picture on page 74 that seems a little odd.
Here is the link to a photo of the page: Linky

Now... look at it closely and read the copy printed on the page.
Then see if you can find anything wrong with it.

:black:

 

[NanoBite]

lol .....

 

[TheCustomer99]

LOL, that's great.

 

[ste6168]

This is a page from a children's book about Bill Gates. There is a picture on page 74 that seems a little odd.
Here is the link to a photo of the page: Linky

Now... look at it closely and read the copy printed on the page.
Then see if you can find anything wrong with it.

:black:

Is that serious? Nice "Windows" Machine, hahah

 

[D3v1L80Y]

I see a Macintosh PC .....

Well, an Apple PC. It isn't a Mac, it is an Apple IIgs.
And that wasn't even released until 1986.

Second, the first mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart of the Stanford Research Institute in 1964

 

[NanoBite]

lol I edited my 1st post cos I realised it gave the game away...

 

[eric]

wow.

is that the same book that states that Al Gore invented the internet?

 

[Subwall]

Wow, someone better have lost their job. That's great.

 

[dtravis7]

Good old IIGS. Nice Windows machine there.

 

[Kash]

Is it just me, or does that keyboard look like one of the more recent Apple keyboards?

 

[dtravis7]

Here is a pic of a IIGS setup. Looks like same keyboard.

 

[Brown Study]

M$'s usual crock.

Second, the first mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart of the Stanford Research Institute in 1964

I have an astronomy book inside a cardboard box in storage, buried under a ton of other books in cardboard boxes, that was published in 1906. The author talks about a U.S. university's giant telescope that is so big, it can only be steered by a control that fits in the palm of your hand and is called — wait for it — wait for it — a mouse.

I don't know whether Engelbart knew of this thing or whether anyone knew of it after all those years. The guts inside might be different enough for a legit patent, but he sure as blazes didn't invent the name. And I also wonder whether the memory of this turn-of-the-20th-century mouse was purposly buried. Engelbart certainly gained fame and awards for inventing it.

 

[BIG D 04]

Saw this on Digg earlier, I can't see anyone losing their Job over it. Let's face it, it's only "g33ks" that are going to spot that. From the text it doesn't appear to be aimed at the most intelligent of people, so it's worth a few little chuckles.

 

[technologist]

M$'s usual crock.I have an astronomy book inside a cardboard box in storage, buried under a ton of other books in cardboard boxes, that was published in 1906. The author talks about a U.S. university's giant telescope that is so big, it can only be steered by a control that fits in the palm of your hand and is called — wait for it — wait for it — a mouse.

I don't know whether Engelbart knew of this thing or whether anyone knew of it after all those years. The guts inside might be different enough for a legit patent, but he sure as blazes didn't invent the name. And I also wonder whether the memory of this turn-of-the-20th-century mouse was purposly buried. Engelbart certainly gained fame and awards for inventing it.

I'm pretty sure that that "mouse" was what we now call a "joystick." (Though probably a lot stubbier than the modern fighter-plane-style joystick.)

 

[fleurya]

I don't know what's worse, the Apple in the pic, or the fact that there's a children's book like this in existence!! Is this for real or someone's idea of a good joke?