Posts filed under 'Trivia'

EDSAC

Question: The EDSAC computer stored programs with ultrasonic memory, using tanks containing

  • liquid air
  • liquid hydrogen
  • mercury
  • water



Answer: mercury

November 20th, 2008

Playing games

Question: Leonardo Torres y Qeuvedo's "telekino" was an early attempt to program a machine to play what game?

  • roulette
  • backgammon
  • chess
  • bingo



Answer: chess

November 19th, 2008

My name is Bill

Question: With its 20,000 vacuum tubes and 40 racks of equipment, ENIAC ran up daily electric bills of…?

  • $5
  • $60
  • $200
  • $10,000



Answer: $60

20,000 vacuum tubes use a lot of watts!

November 18th, 2008

Who's next?

Question: What comes next in this progression? kibibyte, mebibyte, gibibyte,


Answer: tebibyte

November 17th, 2008

Let me out

Question: What was the command used to exit GW-BASIC and return to DOS?

  • BYE
  • EXIT
  • HALT
  • SYSTEM



Answer: SYSTEM

November 16th, 2008

Yahoo!

Question: What was the original URL of Yahoo?


Answer: http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo

November 15th, 2008

Sketchpad

Question: What computer did Ivan Sutherland's groundbreaking graphics program "Sketchpad" run on?

  • TX-2
  • IBM 7090
  • PDP-8
  • Apple Lisa



Answer: TX-2

November 14th, 2008

VR

Question: According to the book Virtual Reality by Howard Rhiengold, what was "The most important computer program ever written"?

  • Sketchpad
  • GLOWFLOW
  • Visicalc
  • Microsoft Windows



Answer: Sketchpad

November 13th, 2008

Not my type

Question: Which of the following is not a type of keyboard?

  • membrane
  • pico
  • chiclet
  • ergonomic



Answer: pico

So-called membrane and chicklet keyboards were used on early computers. Ergonomic keyboards are modern attempts to reduce repetitive-motion injuries.

November 12th, 2008

Trigger

Question: In the movie The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, what was the word that triggered Dexter into telling the names of the places that Arno owned?

  • banana
  • applejack
  • Medfield
  • please



Answer: applejack

November 11th, 2008

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