happily enough, different people have a different sense of humor! i enjoyed very much this thread. best wishes to you all S.
On Dec 13, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Marcel Mohr wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Huiqun Zhou wrote: > >> 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"? > > Although I liked it very much, too. I showed it to a colleague and > he told > me it is fake. > > It is a picture of a sumbarine control station see > http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp > > Sorry for being the spoiler > Marcel > > > >> >> >> Thanks for sharing the precious picture with us! >> >> Huiqun Zhou >> @Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, China >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Paolo Giannozzi" <giannozz at nest.sns.it> >> 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 >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pw_forum mailing list >> Pw_forum at pwscf.org >> http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Pw_forum mailing list > Pw_forum at pwscf.org > http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/pw_forum/attachments/20071213/ae1aef5e/attachment-0001.htm
