The PC Revolution ^©

- An Anarchist’s Journal -

 

A Quiz - The Questions

Our new book addresses many aspects of the "PC Revolution".  We can have fun with some of the information contained.  See how many of the following questions you can answer.

 

1.  What multi-billionaire had trouble deciding what to have for lunch?

                                     

2.  What computer executive gained additional notoriety by wearing a cape to work?      

 

3.  Who quit the computer business completely and became a doctor in GA?

  

4.  The original "punch-cards" were about the same size as  ...............................................?                           

 

5.  Minicomputers became possible due to the invention of .................................................?               

 

6.  The first generation computers designed for the air-defense system, SAGE, contained roughly how many vacuum tubes ...............................................?

 

7.  A customer that bought an Altair 8800 computer kit had to solder .............. individual wires that connected the console with the computer buss?

 

8.  Who were the "two Steves" (last names) ..............................  &  .....................................?

 

9.  What city has a street named after which one of them?  ........................ & ......................?

 

10.  What was the name used by the first computer store franchise  .....................................?

 

11.  Data General's first computer was called the ........................... and had  ....... -bit words?

 

12.  ................................................... was famous for suing people and once had so many law suits outstanding that he was nearly on both sides of one of them.

 

13.  The first PC computer show, open to the general public, was held in what city  .............?

 

14.  What event do most CEO's dislike the most ....................................................................?

 

15.  All minicomputer companies owned a key software program that gave them protection from competitors.  What was it   ....................................................................?

 

16.  What early PC computer company started ComputerLand ..............................................?

 

17.  What happened to a company called Keronics?   ..............................................................?

 

18.  The most successful PC trade show was called ..................................................................?  

 

19.  The key piece of software that IBM fiercely protected on their PC's was .......................?

 

20.  London's financial district is known as  ...............................................................................?

 

Score 5 points for each totally correct answer.  For 2-part questions, each answer is worth 2.5 points.

Perfect score is 100.

 

The PC Revolution

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