EDSAC
Question: The EDSAC computer stored programs with ultrasonic memory, using tanks containing
- liquid air
- liquid hydrogen
- mercury
- water
Answer: mercury
November 20th, 2008
Posts filed under 'Trivia'
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