Quiz: What year is this tech from? SLIDE SHOW QUIZ (from the past)

TechRepublic ^ | August 27, 2017 | By Fox Van Allen

[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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[roadcat]

It's actually the old text-based Star Trek game.

Yep, Star Trek game. Real popular back then. I bought my 1977 Apple II and it came bundled with Star Trek on cassette tape, the only way to automatically load it without hand-typing in the program code. My Apple II still works, although I upgraded it to run on USB memory sticks with thousands of programs, and I will still play Star Trek as a nostalgic remembrance of the past from time to time. The PET, TRS-80 and Apple-II came out around the same time, a step up from the Altair and IMSAI machines out earlier, in ease of use.

[BradyLS]

I’m going to guess 1974.

I remember the ‘64 and the Odyessy and the TRS-80 and a few others. This looks older than those by at at least several years.

And that is a tiny, tiny screen.

[ThunderSleeps]

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I had or used a fair number of the items pictured, and I think I've seen every one of the movies referenced.

[Red Badger]

Ours was used as a test bed for CAT Scan software when we wern’t playing Star Trek on it................

[free_life]

1977 to 1980 have used same puppy.