Bits & Bytes
20 Years Ago in The Caliper...
We explained how to use our Apple II programs with the new "hard drives" that were just coming out. We also introduced Voltage Plotter, our first program to read voltages via the Apple II game port.
Science Humor
The following was found floating around on the internet:
A Party of Famous Scientists
One day, all of the world's famous scientists decided to get together for a luncheon tea. Fortunately, the doorman was a grad student, and was able to observe some of the guests:
- Everyone gravitated toward Newton, but he just kept moving around at a constant velocity and showed no reaction.
- Einstein thought it was a relatively good time.
- Coulomb got a real charge out of the whole thing.
- Cauchy, being the only mathematician there, still managed to integrate well with everyone.
- Thompson enjoyed the plum pudding.
- Pauli came late, but was mostly excluded from things, so he split.
- Pascal was under too much pressure to enjoy himself.
- Volt thought the social had a lot of potential.
- Heisenberg may or may not have been there.
- The Curies were there and just glowed the whole time.