Author Topic: Old Computers, what was your score (Read 4247 times)

rr · « **on:** 15 October, 2008, 03:32:03 pm »

What's your score?

Attitudeless Badger · « **Reply #1 on:** 15 October, 2008, 03:39:08 pm »

whats the question?

rr · « **Reply #2 on:** 15 October, 2008, 03:41:30 pm »

Whoops quiz here

clarion · « **Reply #3 on:** 15 October, 2008, 03:42:36 pm »

Ah. I'd thought it was just all far too clever for me.

dasmoth · « **Reply #4 on:** 15 October, 2008, 03:45:52 pm »

Started out confidently expecting 10/10, but I fell down on the consoles...

border-rider · « **Reply #5 on:** 15 October, 2008, 03:46:34 pm »

7

I got the really early stuff but I'm a bit lost on the niceties of Apple products over the years. And I guessed the consoles

bobajobrob · « **Reply #6 on:** 15 October, 2008, 03:51:23 pm »

7 here as well. I'm such a geek

ISTR my dad had one of those IBM "portables".

Attitudeless Badger · « **Reply #7 on:** 15 October, 2008, 03:51:53 pm »

8, more by luck than judgement, methinks

Greenbank · « **Reply #8 on:** 15 October, 2008, 03:52:21 pm »

10.

Never heard/seen an eMac before but it was easy to guess as it didn't look like a iMac G3 or G4.

chris · « **Reply #9 on:** 15 October, 2008, 03:56:48 pm »

9

One lucky guess and one bad one on the consoles.

I worked with most of those computers, but didn't get one at home until about ten years ago, although at one point in the late 80s I had about £200,000 worth of works computer in my bedroom for a couple of weeks - A couple of original Sun workstations (running the early SunView GUI), a Whitechapel Workstation (early Unix graphical workstation), a DEC VAX Workstation (colour, the B&W ones were the same, except the colour output socket was filled up with epoxy) and a couple of PCs.

bikenerd · « **Reply #10 on:** 15 October, 2008, 04:09:59 pm »

I got 8. I even had a couple of girlfriends at school.

JT · « **Reply #11 on:** 15 October, 2008, 04:16:22 pm »

5 for me. I should have done better with some.

Jaded · « **Reply #12 on:** 15 October, 2008, 04:21:06 pm »

9. Don't see why those silly consoles were in there.

Manotea · « **Reply #13 on:** 15 October, 2008, 04:24:12 pm »

8 of 10, thereby finally answering the question, "Do you feel lucky?"

TimO · « **Reply #14 on:** 15 October, 2008, 04:29:58 pm »

Only got 10, but some of those question were stupidly easy.

I forgot how ugly the iMac G4 was, the Beeb (can't tell if it's a Model A or B), PET, Apple ][, ZX-80 etc did bring back fond memories.

I embrace my inner geek (and outer geek for that matter!)

LEE · « **Reply #15 on:** 15 October, 2008, 04:46:51 pm »

Quote

Only got 10, but some of those question were stupidly easy.

Only for a geek

5/10

I remember all the ZX / Speccy / BBC Acorn stuff (my mate even bought a 'Dragon', I'm not sure anyone else ever did) and I used to load the British Telecom Traffic Queueing software on a Commodor PET (yes, the Operator Switchboard inbound traffic was managed by Commodor PETs using software written by a Manchester BT ~~Geek~~ Engineer in his spare time).

pcolbeck · « **Reply #16 on:** 15 October, 2008, 04:52:06 pm »

The consoles got me as I was never interested in them. I used to have a proper metal teletype terminal and a Digital VT220 in my attic for years.

clarion · « **Reply #17 on:** 15 October, 2008, 04:59:57 pm »

I passed a bookies earlier. I should have popped in and put some money on my hunch that TimO would get 100%

Tom B · « **Reply #18 on:** 15 October, 2008, 05:02:14 pm »

Thanks for posting this, rr.
Our producer is delighted by the publicity generated for UC

Personally, I'm clueless about this - got 5/10 purely from guessing

rr · « **Reply #19 on:** 15 October, 2008, 05:09:48 pm »

I'm not a cabbage cos I don't hate university challenge

We IC got to the final 85? I went on the support coach on successive day, three stops at Corely services in 24 hours hows that for living

Regulator · « **Reply #20 on:** 15 October, 2008, 05:16:23 pm »

8/10...

God - I'm turning into a geek

Greenbank · « **Reply #21 on:** 15 October, 2008, 05:17:39 pm »

Hmm, let me think, in no particular order:-

Access to PDP-11s and IBM System/370 machines by sneaking into Cambridge University's labs.

ZX80, ZX81, Spectrum, Spectrum+, Spectrum+2 (never had a +3 or QL)
Jupiter Ace (program in Forth)
BBC Model A, Model B, Model B+, Master, Compact
Oric 1 and Oric Atmos
Acorn Electron
Dragon 32
Archimedes A310, A3000, plus various others
Commodore 16plus4 (with 1541 disc drive), Commodore 64
Amiga A500, Amiga B2000 (with Janus PC card)
Atari ST
RM 380Z and 480Z (Robot Arena was excellent!)
PCW 8256 and 8512
Mac (][/IIse/Mini/G5/etc)
PCs all the way from the old XT/8086
Various Sun/AIX/HP-UX machines (from SunOS 4.1.4_U5, AIX 3, HPUX 8 days, so about 1992)

This includes:

Z80, 6502, 68k, x86, ARM, Sparc assembly to varying levels (ARM is still my favourite).
Linux 0.99-pre13 kernel and the 10 floppy MCC distrib based on 1.0.8 kernel.
UNIX: HPUX/AIX/Linux/SunOS/Solaris/zOS/zLinux
Other OSes: AmigaOS, CP/M (PCW8256 and the 380Z and 480Z), DOS, GEM (my eyes!), Windows 3.x and onwards, MacOS from System 6 onwards

Shame I can't get on any of the big machines we produce at work

rr · « **Reply #22 on:** 15 October, 2008, 05:21:06 pm »

Quote from: Regulator on 15 October, 2008, 05:16:23 pm

8/10...

God - I'm turning into a geek

Edited the poll for you

chris · « **Reply #23 on:** 15 October, 2008, 05:23:03 pm »

Does anyone else remember the old Apricot PCs from the late 80s that had little LCD displays above the function keys that could be programmed to display the function assigned to the key?

pcolbeck · « **Reply #24 on:** 15 October, 2008, 05:26:39 pm »

Yup and some of them came with infra red keyboards which was way cool in those days.

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Old Computers, what was your score

Author Topic: Old Computers, what was your score (Read 4247 times)

border-rider

bobajobrob

bikenerd

LEE