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Quiz: What year is this tech from? SLIDE SHOW QUIZ (from the past)
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| August 27, 2017
| By Fox Van Allen
Posted on 12/20/2017 9:07:59 AM PST by Swordmaker
In what year was the Commodore PET released?
Short for Personal Electronic Transactor, the monochrome PET was the first full-featured computer released by Commodore.
via Oldcomputers.net
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; History
KEYWORDS: applepinglist; history; tech; windowspinglist
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To: Swordmaker
That looks like 80’s gear. Early, before 1983, I’d guess.
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posted on
12/20/2017 9:10:42 AM PST
by
chris37
(Take a week off racist >;-)
To: Swordmaker
1980? What’s on the screen, machine language or an early version of mine sweeper?
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12/20/2017 9:11:35 AM PST
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dhs12345
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Nostalgic wandering of tech gone past (some not so long past) in this slide show quiz from Tech Republic to test how well you remember when specific tech was introduced. See how well you did. I was mostly within one year of the introduction of most of them but a couple I did not even recognize, I must admit. — PING! Pinging dayglored, ShadowAce, and ThunderSleeps for the enjoyment of their Pinglist members.
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posted on
12/20/2017 9:12:08 AM PST
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
To: Swordmaker
1977.......................
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posted on
12/20/2017 9:13:20 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Swordmaker
I had the portable model for a while.
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posted on
12/20/2017 9:13:20 AM PST
by
Delta 21
(Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
To: chris37
That looks like 80’s gear. Early, before 1983, I’d guess. Try the whole slide show quiz. Some is as late as 2015. . .
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posted on
12/20/2017 9:13:39 AM PST
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
To: dhs12345
Star Trek......................
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posted on
12/20/2017 9:14:01 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
Yep! Around when the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project came out!
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posted on
12/20/2017 9:15:05 AM PST
by
gr8eman
(Facts and evidence are bourgeois constructs weaponized by patriarchal penis-people)
To: Red Badger
Lol. And the 60s version. Not the movies that followed later.
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posted on
12/20/2017 9:15:16 AM PST
by
dhs12345
To: Delta 21
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posted on
12/20/2017 9:15:58 AM PST
by
dhs12345
To: Swordmaker
Commodore PET, about 1978, Star Trek kind of game on screen.
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posted on
12/20/2017 9:17:42 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: Swordmaker
Ah, yes, the cash register style keyboard.
Trivia: the early all in one designs existed because the FCC wanted to fuss over every possible configuration of a computer and they also demanded to (expensively) control testing. Thus if you sold the monitor and tape drive separate from the box your costs skyrocketed,
Backlash led to the more reasonable proposition of letting manufacturers test their own equipment.
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posted on
12/20/2017 9:17:57 AM PST
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: dhs12345
I played it on a PDP-11.........................
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posted on
12/20/2017 9:18:44 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Dr. Sivana
That Star Trek type game was mighty fun too. I’ve got a copy of it for the old XT around here somewhere.
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posted on
12/20/2017 9:20:14 AM PST
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Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: Red Badger
There you go, ruining the whole Four Yorkshiremen Skit motif we old timers might have built....
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posted on
12/20/2017 9:21:57 AM PST
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Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: Red Badger
What about Moria? Fun game. DOS was developed on a PDP.
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posted on
12/20/2017 9:22:04 AM PST
by
dhs12345
To: dhs12345
The precursor to MS-DOS was CP/M......very similar.............
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posted on
12/20/2017 9:23:42 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
I agree. 1977. I had just graduated High School when that hit the market.
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posted on
12/20/2017 9:25:33 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Ban pre-shredded cheese now! Make America Grate Again.)
To: dhs12345
I used to play the turn based game Hammurabi. How many people lived and died per year and how much food was available to feed them.
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posted on
12/20/2017 9:26:40 AM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(We're CNN. We're not lying, we're just incompetent!)
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