X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <001a01c04af1$dcc22a60$0100007f@dbcooper> From: "Patrick Moran" To: Subject: Trivia Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 01:33:37 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com 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! Pat _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com