[Pw_forum] bands_FS.x and spin polarized metals

[Marcel Mohr]

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
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>>
>> 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.
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