Susan, I know that it is written by a fan, I checked that right after Jouni's answer and figured out by myself. BTW, while written Italian is a bit weird and I don't understand much of it, but given the way Rossi, Focardi and Levi speak, I can understand most of it. For example, while Rossi said that the reason why Focardi wanted the January demo was his old age, Focardi actually said the reason was that he wanted to make the researchers believe the phenomenon was real and did not give further explanation. Rossi did things like this all the time, but it looked like Focardi was well aware of what Rossi was saying. So, I don't see any reason to see any lie in that.
And working with old computers would never be easier than new ones. They actually require much more sophisticated knowledge of computing to operate them than nowadays. The more "hi-tech" something is, the dumber it is.
