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It is time for a quiz slightly biased toward older, larger systems giving old farts an unfair advantage.
Remember: googling the answers is cheating but we have no way of enforcing it. But it is less fun.
1. What is the advantage of unidirectional printing on a dot-matrix printer?
2. What is the distance between the black marks on a thick yellow ethernet cable (10BASE5)?
3. Which CPU did the SuperMAX from DDE have? (trick question)
4. How do you exit from a DOS program (interrupt number + subfunction)
5. Which interactive game from 1986 had the settings tame..lewd, and a scratch'n'sniff card was in the box?
6. Why is a memory dump called a "core" dump?
7. Which CPU did the Siemens PC-D have?
8. Which new features were in the file system in DOS 2.x when compared to DOS 1.x ?
9. What is the visual administration tool in AIX called?
10. Name the file server in the Amoeba OS.
11. What is the biggest difference between C64 joysticks and PC-joysticks (we are talking about the original ones that had to connect to a game port)?
12. What is the maximum line length in COBOL? (trick question)
13. Where is the main office of the Sirius Cybernetics Complaints Department located?
14. "eioio" instruction on Power. What does it do?
15. Before Borland introduced their TurboVision, which toolkit was widespread for implementing windows/ISAM-files in Turbo Pascal?
16. Why is the Unix function for creating a file called "creat" and not "create"?
17. When was SMP supported by Windows? And OS/2?
18. Which number did the Fidonet nets have in your country? (bonus point if you remember your matrix address)
19. How do you mark a block in Wordstar?
20. Which came first: Amiga, Norton Commander, or HP Laserjet?
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2020, @11:56PM (4 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2020, @01:33AM
and traveled to the moon!
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday March 06 2020, @06:22AM
It was also called "lol memory". Little old ladies made it.
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(Score: 2) by istartedi on Friday March 06 2020, @04:52PM (1 child)
This was one of the few I knew, and it was actually way before my time. Many of the others were contemporary to me, but involved things I didn't use, so I think it's more of a *how widely exposed were you* as an old fart test.
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(Score: 2) by kazzie on Saturday March 07 2020, @06:48AM
a "widely exposed fart" sounds, er, smelly.