Posts filed under 'Trivia'

Attack of the clones

Question: IBM begin selling non-IBM built clones in 1992, the Ambra line. Who built these clones?

  • Dell
  • Hitachi
  • Wearne Brothers



Answer: Wearne Brothers

The line was canceled in August, 1994.

August 17th, 2008

Knight Rider

Question: A computerized car named KITT was featured on the Knight Rider TV series. What does KITT stand for?


Answer: Knight Industries Two Thousand

August 16th, 2008

Macintosh

Question: According to The Mac Bathroom Reader by Owen Linzmayer, Apple in the early 1980's considered shortening the name of the Macintosh to simply Mac. What did M-A-C stand for?


Answer: mouse-activated computer

August 15th, 2008

Just because you can…

Question: Around 1994, Paul Haas of Ypsilanti, Michigan connected several odd devices to the World Wide Web. Which of these didn't he connect to the Web?

  • hot tub
  • refrigerator
  • microwave oven



Answer: microwave oven

August 14th, 2008

Unsubscribe

Question: What famous computer personality's e-mail address was printed in the New Yorker in 1994, causing him to be deluged with mail?


Answer: Bill Gates

August 13th, 2008

Time in a bottle

Question: In December, 1994, just for fun, the MIT museum filled a time capsule with a group of strange computer artifacts. Which of the following was not included?

  • an Internet Barbie doll
  • an autographed picture of Bill Gates
  • a copy of Windows 3.1



Answer: an autographed picture of Bill Gates

August 12th, 2008

Charles Babbage

Question: Which of the following did computer pioneer Charles Babbage not do?

  • have himself baked in an oven at 260 degrees
  • calculate the chances of a man rising from the dead
  • fight in a duel
  • win a Gold Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society



Answer: fight in a duel

August 11th, 2008

Piles of punch cards

Question: Fifty years ago the ENIAC computer was given a complicated ballistics problem to solve. How many IBM cards were needed to input the initial conditions?

  • 1,000
  • 10,000
  • 100,000
  • 1,000,000



Answer: 1,000,000

August 10th, 2008

Cold email

Question: What is the two-letter Internet top-level domain name for Antarctica?

  • AA
  • AQ
  • AX
  • AR



Answer: AQ

August 9th, 2008

Amped up

Question: George Philbrick was a pioneer in analog computing. During the 1930's, he used feedback amplifier theory to develop what device?

  • the flip flop
  • the multivibrator
  • the operational amplifier
  • the vacuum tube



Answer: the operational amplifier

August 8th, 2008

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