Wow, what a "home computer"! Moor's law hadn't been invented at that time, right? :-)
Are there any copyright issue to prevent me from using it in my presentation about "concise history of personal computer"? Thanks for sharing the precious picture with us! Huiqun Zhou @Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, China ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paolo Giannozzi" <[email protected]> To: "PWSCF Forum" <pw_forum at pwscf.org> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 5:12 AM Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] bands_FS.x and spin polarized metals > > On Dec 12, 2007, at 21:58 , Nicola Marzari wrote: > >>> I am old enough to have seen card punchers in action, so the term >>> "abend" is not unknown to me, but I guess younger people don't >>> know that it is a shorthand for "abnormal end", on IBM mainframes... >> >> What's a mainframe ? Is it like a really, really big ipod ? > > do you remember the picture of the "home computer > in 2004" you sent me some time ago ? > http://www.fisica.uniud.it/~giannozz/public/pc2004.jpg > :-) > > P. > --- > Paolo Giannozzi, Dept of Physics, University of Udine > via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy > Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pw_forum mailing list > Pw_forum at pwscf.org > http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum >
