Reply to: BBC Geek quiz

[tim123]

I got 8 out of ten but I guessed well on a few.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7671677.stm

How many can you get?

There's something about BBC "quizes! Whenever I have to guess one of them I always get far less right that you would statistically expect.

Oh, I seem to have excelled myself once again -Not! I got 3 (and 2 of those I was sure about)

tim

[Gonzo]

7/10

[DiscoStu]

5/10

Guess I'm a bit young

[TykeMerc]

Yeah, I identified it as the Compaq, which I remember seeing. Hard to tell the difference IMO

There were 2 main iterations of Compaq luggable, the first looked a lot like the IBM (again it was a desktop in a sturdy box), but there were some differences. The second was a lot more refined with a plasma display on a pivot that came forwards and up, it was a lot more portable.

The IBM dealership I worked for also did Compaq warranty work.

[lambrini_socialist]

8/10. fluffed the games console questions.

[NickFitz]

And they're wrong about the ZX80 too.

Sinclair brought out the Mk 14 in 1978. For £43 odd.

With a whole 256 bytes of ram.

There was also the Sinclair Cambridge Programmable calculator, with its 4-bit machine code.

I've still got mine, and the four books of programs that came with it

EDIT: Linky

[Platypus]

Got the luggable wrong too.

Yeah, I identified it as the Compaq, which I remember seeing. Hard to tell the difference IMO

[zeitghost]

7/10.

No idea on the console thingies, not my sort of thing.

Got the luggable wrong too.

Ho hum.

[NickFitz]

9/10 - I'm not very clued up on 90s consoles as I'd left the games industry by then

[The Lone Gunman]

And 2 lovely ones at that

You silver tongued devil you.

[cailin maith]

And 2 lovely ones at that

[DodgyAgent]

Thats what I got!!

And 2 lovely ones at that

[PRC1964]

Apple Lisas were my first work computer.

They seemed to attract dirt. It may just be my dodgy memory, but the cases always looked dirty.

[cailin maith]

2 / 10

2 lucky guesses i guess. or is that 3 unlucky?

Thats what I got!!

[DS23]

2 / 10

2 lucky guesses i guess. or is that 3 unlucky?