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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2020, @07:14AM
Well, you certainly didn't see that on June 14, 1987. The Mets beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-3 in Pittsburgh on that day [baseball-almanac.com].
The game you're likely (if you're not just completely full of shit) referring to is the June 28, 1987 [baseball-almanac.com] game at the Vet in Philly, where Ronnie took a no hitter (4-0 lead) into the 8th inning, and the Mets gave up 3 runs in the 8th and 2 in the 9th. Your memory must be failing you, as no errors were recorded by *either* team that day.
According to Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]:
You hate him just because you were at that game and he made an error? Except he wasn't charged with an error. That's odd.
Hernandez won a Gold Glove that year, committing only 10 errors in 154 games [baseball-reference.com] that season.
In his seven years as a Met, [baseball-reference.com] Hernandez hit .297, with an on-base percentage of .387 and an OPS of .816.
Keith was likely the best first baseman the Mets every had, and a strong leader on the team. Without him, the Mets *never* would have won the world series in '86.
And you hate him because you mis-remember him making an error at *one* game which you don't remember the date? Damn! I hope you don't mis-remember something about me
Was that the only Mets game you ever attended? Are you even a Mets fan?
Geez, Louise!