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From: "Patrick Moran" <pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Trivia
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 01:33:37 -0700
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Leaves1. What is  Les Solomon's, publisher of Popular Electronics,
daughter/s name who suggested the name "Altair" for Ed Robert's computer?

2. What was the intial price of the Intel 8086?

3. What was the initial price of the APPLE I board kit?

4. What is the name of the first language (assemblers do not count)
       a. What is this person's name?
       b. When was it written?
       c. Where was this person employed at the time it was written?
       d. Would you consider this person the first real computer hacker?
Nerd?

5. What event took place that really kicked off the personal computer
revolution? When did it happen and what companies were involved? Why did it
have this affect?

6. Who introduced the first disk storage system? What was it called? How
much data would it hold? Describe it. Hint: it would not fit on your kitchen
table! Probably not in you kitchen!<grin>

Pat



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