Post #205,035
4/27/05 8:48:05 PM
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quiz for computer history geeks
7 of 10, I thought the first game on a pdp11 was life
[link|http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/elearning/?page=computergeekquiz&Quizid=132|http://encarta.msn.c...ekquiz&Quizid=132]
thanx,
bill
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Post #205,038
4/27/05 9:05:00 PM
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8 of10 right.
Q 3. I thought the Univac printer was $92500.
Q 6. Never heard of Kembak-1.
Spacewar on the PDP-1? I was there to play it. The computer room was across the hall from my office.
Alex
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #205,075
4/28/05 12:39:22 AM
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Same
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #205,039
4/27/05 9:11:20 PM
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9/10
Kenbak???
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Post #205,042
4/27/05 9:24:27 PM
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9/10 but I guessed on a few. Missed #1.
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Post #205,045
4/27/05 9:30:19 PM
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9/10
bcnu,
Mikem
Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer.
God Bless America.
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Post #205,047
4/27/05 9:31:41 PM
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Another.
[link|http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc3/showpage.php?page=160|Computer History Trivia Quiz] from 1980.
I haven't taken it yet. It looks a wee bit tougher than the Encarta one.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #205,054
4/27/05 9:54:17 PM
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Damn, 8/10
Should have gone with my first instinct on the election. And Gates was the 640K RAM line, not the 5 computers line.
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Post #205,067
4/27/05 10:27:35 PM
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9/10
got the Walter Cronkite question wrong.
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Post #205,079
4/28/05 9:53:36 AM
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9/10
Missed first personal computer sold.
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"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
-- H. L. Mencken
Support our troops, Impeach Bush.
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Post #205,085
4/28/05 10:12:14 AM
4/28/05 10:15:20 AM
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Yeah, well, thanks everybody. :-(
No use the rest of us taking it, is there?
[Edit: Fucking typoes!]
[Edit 2: WTF did I want to delete the .sig for?]
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Edited by CRConrad
April 28, 2005, 10:13:39 AM EDT
Edited by CRConrad
April 28, 2005, 10:15:20 AM EDT
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Post #205,094
4/28/05 12:09:33 PM
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Eh, what?
I'll bet you were the kind of kid who sneaked open his presents beforehand too.
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"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
-- H. L. Mencken
Support our troops, Impeach Bush.
D. D. Richards
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Post #205,145
4/28/05 4:04:10 PM
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What, do you have Z set to display only a single post?
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Post #205,148
4/28/05 4:06:59 PM
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dont read them until after you take the quiz
All tribal myths are true, for a given value of "true" Terry Pratchett
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Post #205,150
4/28/05 4:12:24 PM
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Are you seriously sugggesting I NOT READ a page that is...
...OPEN right there in front of me?!? Sorry, but that's just not possible.
And that has nothing to do with "peeking at presents beforehand"; it's just a natural consequence of being a readaholic / zIWTaholic.
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
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Post #205,158
4/28/05 4:51:57 PM
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Uhm, yeah.
If you don't want the answers to publicly announced quiz, don't read them. Learn to control your compulsion. It's hard, I know. But doable. If I can do it .....
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"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
-- H. L. Mencken
Support our troops, Impeach Bush.
D. D. Richards
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Post #205,159
4/28/05 5:01:08 PM
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Why should I have to; when did this become the new standard?
We didn't use to post the answers to specific questions in the same thread that announced the quiz they're from, AFAICR. Why did everyone have to go and do that now? I don't get it.
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
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Post #205,184
4/28/05 9:09:08 PM
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Ok, sorry
I'll stop teasing.
As far as the posting of answer goes though, I don't really remember it one way or the other. I guess that's because if it looked as if I might like it I always tried it before reading on and if I didn't care to take it seeing the answers wouldn't have made much of an impression.
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"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
-- H. L. Mencken
Support our troops, Impeach Bush.
D. D. Richards
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Post #205,095
4/28/05 12:37:04 PM
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8 of 10
Missed cost of Univac printer (presumed it was either the high number or low number but picked against my first judgement)
Missed the game played on the PDP. I've only seen one PDP11 and it had been taken out of service.
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Post #205,099
4/28/05 12:56:50 PM
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8 of 10
need to study ancient history a little more
lincoln
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Post #205,109
4/28/05 2:08:22 PM
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8 of 10. Missed the election and first personal computer
I was looking for Altair and didn't find it for the latter. (I disagree with their answer, I still think that the Altair was really the first personal computer. Though HP had a desk calculator that some might argue should qualify.)
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #205,207
4/28/05 11:47:17 PM
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same, same
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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Post #205,997
5/4/05 10:24:57 PM
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I think I would have gotten 8 or 9.
I remember reading the election thing only a little while ago, so I know I knew that one. The Kenbas one was a bit of a giver because I knew it wasn't any of the others. The printer I guessed (correctly). The PDP-11 one I already saw the answer.
Wade.
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Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Somebody save my life
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