Test your Computer Trivia Smarts... 1) Who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates? 2) Are computers mentioned anywhere in George Orwells 1984 ? 3) What was the first home computer to sell a million units? The Apple II, Commodore VIC-20, or the TRS-80? 4) What was the first software company to go public on the NY Stock Exchange? Was it Microsoft, IBM, Novell or Cullinet? 5) What book about computers won a Pulitzer Prize? 6) Name two computer software languages developed by industry and user committees? 7) Which of the following did Bill Gates NOT do: drop out of Harvard University; program the PDP-10; or, have a 1,000 person, 25th birthday party? 8) In 1981, IBM introduced a computer known as the Model 5150. Under what name is this computer more commonly known? 9) The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, known as XEROX PARC, is famous for many computer innovations. One such innovation was the early development of the Alto computer which used a mouse for an input device. How many buttons were there on the original Xerox Alto mouse? 10) What is SABRE? 11) According to the New York Times, what U.S. government official sent the following e-mail message: Oh Lord, I lost the slip and broke one of the high heels. Forgive me please. Will return the wig on Monday. Was it William Casey, J. Edgar Hoover, Oliver North or George Bush? 12) Steve Jobs has a daughter whose name is the same as that of a computer. What is her name? ===================================================================== Answers: 1) Paul Allen 2) No 3) Commodore Vic-20 4) Cullinet Software in 1978 5) Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder 6) ADA and COBOL 7) Have a 1,000-person 25th birthday party 8) IBM PC 9) Three 10) Amereican Airlines computerized reservation system 11) Oliver North 12) Lisa =====================================================================