It begins
Question: What was the first computer company to register for a domain name?
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- IBM
- Sun Microsystems
- BBN Planet
October 21st, 2008
Speed demon
Question: Which of these computers shipped with the fastest processor?
- Apple //e
- Apple //c
- Apple //c+
- Apple IIgs
October 20th, 2008
Atomic computing
Question: Which British computer maker gave its products names such as Atom, Electron, and Archimedes?
- ACT
- Acorn
- Dragon
- Sinclair
October 19th, 2008
Sounds like….
Question: Of these vintage computers, which one used a chip called Antic to process sound?
- Coleco ADAM
- Commodore 64
- Atari 800
- Tandy Color Computer
October 18th, 2008
Search me
Question: Which of the following is not string searching algorithm?
- Boyer-Moore
- Graham-Kruskal
- Knuth-Morris-Pratt
- Rabin-Karp
October 17th, 2008
malloc()
Question: What is malloc()?
- a C function that allocates memory from the heap
- a Java method that tests for malformed URLs
- accessBasic method that locks a record
- all of the above
October 16th, 2008
Sign your work
Question: Hidden inside the first Macintosh computer were the signatures of its developers. What other computer had designers' signatures hidden inside?
- Atari 520 ST
- Coloco ADAM
- Commodore Amiga 1000
- Texas Instruments TI-99/4
October 15th, 2008
Sinclair
Question: The year was 1981 and I just bought my first computer, a Sinclair ZX-81. How much RAM did it come with?
- 256 bytes
- 1 kb
- 4 kb
- 16 kb
October 14th, 2008
IP address
Question: Class D IP addresses with high-order bits 1110 are reserved for
- multicasting
- IPv6 experimental work
- intranets
October 13th, 2008
Can't count on your fingers
Question: What was unusual about the way the IBM 1620 (a transistorized computer introduced by IBM in 1960) did arithmetic?
- The 1620 stored all numbers as alphabetic characters.
- The 1620 had a 36-bit accumulator with 2 overflow bits.
- The 1620 had no Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU).
- The 1620 represented negative numbers in ones-complement form.
October 12th, 2008