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Elizabeth
10-20-2003, 11:42 AM
Try this game and see how well you do... (http://www.pbs.org/nerds/game.html)

I didn't do as well as I'd hoped, but I imagine a guru like Weed will get 100% right on the first try. :)

-Elizabeth
The Chancer
10-20-2003, 11:45 AM
Wooo - I got all of em right....

see (http://www.pbs.org/nerds/quiz/congrats.html)

Ahem - not all on first go though
Moonglobe
10-20-2003, 11:51 AM
same with the chancer here.. but im not to into old computing equipment.....
The Chancer
10-20-2003, 11:52 AM
Cancer ? Eeek - and I thought I had given up the fags early enough...

<cough cough>
Moonglobe
10-20-2003, 11:55 AM
ok, ok, its been editted :D
stolzyboy
10-20-2003, 12:05 PM
Originally posted by The Chancer
Cancer ? Eeek - and I thought I had given up the fags early enough...

<cough cough>

given up the FAG's???
LordShryku
10-20-2003, 12:07 PM
Thank god I have a friend from Wales who told me what that actually meant....
stolzyboy
10-20-2003, 12:10 PM
Originally posted by LordShryku
Thank god I have a friend from Wales who told me what that actually meant....

OK, enlighten me!
LordShryku
10-20-2003, 12:11 PM
LOL

Fags = cigarettes
Moonglobe
10-20-2003, 12:12 PM
i think you mean == ;)
LordShryku
10-20-2003, 12:13 PM
Noo.....I'm not trying to compare them.
I'm trying to set the value for stolzy :p

BTW, you shoulda seen my English friends reaction when I told him what that term means over here in the US :D
Moonglobe
10-20-2003, 12:15 PM
O of course! :d my bad ;)
stolzyboy
10-20-2003, 12:16 PM
Originally posted by LordShryku
BTW, you shoulda seen my English friends reaction when I told him what that term means over here in the US :D

yeah, i bet that threw him for a loop

//setting... he's over here and asks to borrow a fag from a big burly Harley guy...

//get's beat to death by big burly Harley guy
LordShryku
10-20-2003, 12:17 PM
Equally as funny...before I knew what it meant, and him saying to me "Let's go smoke a fag" :eek:
stolzyboy
10-20-2003, 12:21 PM
Originally posted by LordShryku
Equally as funny...before I knew what it meant, and him saying to me "Let's go smoke a fag" :eek:

Aaahhhh, That woulda been creepy and akward!
Moonglobe
10-20-2003, 12:22 PM
Originally posted by stolzyboy
Aaahhhh, That woulda been creepy and akward! wouldnt wanna be there myself.....
n00854180t
10-20-2003, 12:38 PM
Originally posted by LordShryku
Noo.....I'm not trying to compare them.
I'm trying to set the value for stolzy :p

BTW, you shoulda seen my English friends reaction when I told him what that term means over here in the US :D

Hehe I have known that one for a while. A few of my IRC friends live in the UK so I know some of the more ambiguous slang.
LordShryku
10-20-2003, 12:38 PM
Yeah, well, needless to say, we cleared up what a fag was, in both languages, very quickly
jstarkey
10-20-2003, 02:33 PM
Boy am I glad I chose to hang out with the cool kids back then :D

I got like 2 right. Commodore and Apple.
n00854180t
10-20-2003, 06:57 PM
I guessed on pretty much everything. I got a lot of them right though. I don't know too much about ancient computing (history lessons lol). Oldest computer I ever owned was an Apple IIe
LordShryku
10-20-2003, 07:07 PM
Yeah, I was all kindsa wrong. First computer I owned was a Celeron 550mhz
stolzyboy
10-20-2003, 07:12 PM
Originally posted by LordShryku
Yeah, I was all kindsa wrong. First computer I owned was a Celeron 550mhz

That's not OLD at all...

just found the specs on my first comp, the vic 20(pretty embarrassing):

Processor Motorola 6502
Speed 1 MHz
RAM 5k
ROM 16K
Storage Optional external tape drive, 5.25" disk drive
Expansion None
Bus N/A
Video Up to 184x176x16 color
I/O Parallel
OS Options N/A
jstarkey
10-20-2003, 07:13 PM
I had a TRS-80 back then, and was playing with Basic, but I was more interested in getting in trouble. You know, that priorities thing :D
LordShryku
10-20-2003, 07:13 PM
Oh, I know it's nothing. Hell, it was only a couple years ago....
stolzyboy
10-20-2003, 07:15 PM
Originally posted by jstarkey
I had a TRS-80 back then, and was playing with Basic, but I was more interested in getting in trouble. You know, that priorities thing :D

the TRS was a speed demon compared to the vic

Processor Zilog Z80
Speed 4 MHz
RAM 4K to 16K internally, 32K additional in the expansion interface
ROM 4K (12K on the step II)
Storage Cassette tape, 5.25" floppy disks (optional)
Expansion TRS-80 Expansion Base
Bus N/A
Video 64 x 24 text, 128x48 graphics (modified text) on a monochrome monitor
I/O Parallel and Serial with expansion unit
OS Options TRS-DOS, NewDOS, others.
The Chancer
10-22-2003, 06:06 AM
Oops - I suppose I should apologise for any wierdness caused by my slang UK term "Fag".... Yes I did mean those little white sticks of tobacco that can cause fatal diseases and lung cancer, as well as possibly harming any unborn children in pregnant mothers...

Ahh - the First PC...

Amstrad 6128....
Disk driven games, off 3" drive
Optional ROMs and EPROMS
BASIC 1.1 - and a lovely blue background with lurid yellow writing...
Tape drive optional.... and the ability to buy games on tape - copy them on your stereo, and STILL take the tape back and exchange it for another.... WOW - why don't they do that now ??? (if only)

----------------Specs------------------
Computer CPC 6128
Brand Amstrad
CPU Z80A 4MHz
Memory 128Kb RAM, 48Kb ROM
O.S. Basic, CP/M80,CP/M 2.2, CP/M3.1
Year 1984?
Additional information built-in 3 inch disk drive
compatible with the models CPC664 and CPC464
Terminal VT52
Power supply comes from monitor or from an external UHF modulator
sound 3 channels 8 octaves sound generator
interfaces:
RS-232
Centronics
expansion bus
joystick
Norman Graham
10-22-2003, 08:28 AM
Originally posted by n00854180t
Hehe I have known that one for a while. A few of my IRC friends live in the UK so I know some of the more ambiguous slang.

I ran into some weird ones on my first trip to the US of A many years ago, e.g. 'fanny', which is totally inocuous in the States and completely off-limits in the UK (I don't think I need to explain the difference). I also discovered that the word 'wanker' doesn't mean much in the USA. I tried it on a particularly irritating American citizen who had been trying my patience for some time. I may as well have called him a banana for all the difference it made.

I think it's a function of the unequal relationship between the prevalence of US culture (everyone in the UK watches US films and US TV shows) and that of British culture that most young Brits are well aware of US slang while their American counterparts are blissfully unaware of British dialect words. So don't go round Britain insulting people in American slang, guys and gals. The Brits will understand all of it. You have been warned.

Norm :)

PS: We had Sinclair ZX80s when I was in high school. We were allowed to take them home at the weekend and attach them to the TV. They were ... utter crap, but I wish I'd seen the potential, because I would have got into computers a lot earlier if I had.
Mordicae
10-22-2003, 09:33 AM
My first 'computer' was a Commodore 64 with a tape drive....the cassette tapes ;)

I remember coding BASIC programs on it that animated ASCII pictures. Like a 200 line program to make a little ASCII guy doing jumping jacks haha.

My favorite game on it was this one where you flew around a helecopter and rescued these people that ran around, but it was even more fun to skim the helecopter across the ground and make the people explode! ;) I don't remember the name of it anymore though.
stolzyboy
10-22-2003, 09:39 AM
Originally posted by Mordicae
My first 'computer' was a Commodore 64 with a tape drive....the cassette tapes ;)

A 64? My neighbor had one...That was leaps and bounds better than my Vic-20.
piersk
10-22-2003, 10:22 AM
Come on now guys and gals. Let's not start an argument over who had the worst computer ;)

Me, my first was a BBC Micro 32K. Ahhh, those days of Repton.

Speaking of which, does anyone know where I can get a copy of Repton for the PC, via an emulator or otherwise.

I loved that game...

// Piers starts remonissing (sp?)...
bad76
10-22-2003, 01:29 PM
Me in 1980 play with intellivision...


CPU: GI 16 bit microprocessor

Memory: 7K internal ROM, RAM and I/O structures,
64k address for external programs.

Controls: 12 button numeric key pad, four action keys, 16 direction disk

Sound: Sound generator capable of 3 part harmony with programmable ASDR envelopes.

Color: 16

Resolution: 192v x 160h pixels
drawmack
10-22-2003, 03:51 PM
that was easy but then again my professor for computer org was all into old equipment and I had a test for that class that was similar to this except we also had to know the specs on the machines.
dalecosp
10-23-2003, 01:20 AM
Weird. I imagine I got "Incorrect!" about 50% of the time, and then it tells me "You identified all of the computers correctly! Why aren't you a billionaire yet?"

I think I can answer that one ... for me and them both.... :D :D
Merve
10-23-2003, 07:33 PM
rofl...i failed miserably...