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Subject: Trivia
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 14:00:00 -0700
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Excellent article. There are more types that were not in your list for the
files systems. We can probably add them from time to time. I'll have to look
up some. 80h and 83h are Linux Swap and ext2fs.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert W Moss" <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 12:17 AM
Subject: RE: FDISK


> I hope none of you old timers is bored yet.
> All of this H&P entry is killing my back and wrists.
> I guess I am getting old, and I wonder how  I used to do
> touch typing for eight hours a day in the AF 30 years ago,
> although my wrists are starting to remember.
>
> Trivia question:
>
> What was the first do something program run on an Altair 8080,

Playing music.

> (SN #003), and  what was the name of the score and the encore?

 "Fool on the Hill" and "Daisy"

> How was it accomplished?

Holding a radio close to Altair.

> BONUS POINTS:  Where and when did it happen?

The 4th meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club held at the Peninsula School
in Menlo Park in 1975.

>Who was the perpetrator?

 Steve Dompier

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More trivia,

What was the initial price for the 8008 chips?

BONUS points:

What was the meaning of the price?


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