Path: news1.icaen!news.uiowa.edu!NewsNG.Chicago.Qual.Net!usc!howland.erols.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-backup-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!205.246.19.11!buffnet2.buffnet.net!eppp10.buffnet.net!user From: tim@buffnet.net (Tim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Apple History Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 17:49:31 -0400 Organization: BuffNET Lines: 277 Message-ID: References: <35BF787D.37495857@swbell.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: eppp10.buffnet.net X-Trace: buffnet2.buffnet.net 901748900 9564 205.246.19.117 (29 Jul 1998 21:48:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@buffnet2.buffnet.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Jul 1998 21:48:20 GMT Xref: news1.icaen comp.sys.apple2:137449 > To start with, your trivia stuff is at ... > > http://www.canisius.edu/~weibelt/apptriv.html (You reversed the "r" and > "t" in your URL.) I'm a goof... and I deserve any harassemnt I get for that. :) I should, by now, get the address of my own page right. > It was fun taking the Trivia Quiz. You do not supply answers; so, > it's hard to say much about accuracy. I'll print them at the bottom of this post... >(No doubt, I got them all right! > well, except, maybe, for the editor of MacAddict.) I want them to write about the Apple IIgs one month in their "This old Mac" column. They seem to think it's not Mac enough, though. Oh well... that's besides the point. > I don't know whether or not the page is Lynx friendly. It is, for > sure, Netscape 4.x friendly. That's good to know. Thanks a lot for taking the time! Later, Tim (http://www.canisius.edu/~weibelt/apptriv.html) P.S. The answers (and questions) are as follows. Again, they are only accurate to the best of my knowledge, so any further/better information is appreciated. 1. Shortly before the creation of Apple Computer Company, Steve Jobs worked: For Hewlett-Packard At Hombrew Computer For Motorola At McDonald's In an Apple Orchard In an apple orchard. Because of this, and a lack of creativity at the time, Wozniak and Jobs chose to name their company Apple. As for the other choices: Woz worked for Hewlett-Packard. He was also a member of Homebrew Computer Club. Apple has always used Motorola processors in their computers. And McDonald's had nothing to do with anything. 2. The original Apple I computers were sold at a small computer shop, at the price of: $100.00 $666.66 $999.95 $1,100.11 $2,500.00 $666.66. 3. The name of the shop in which these first Apples were sold was: Quality Computers The Byte Shop Nybbler's Northwest Big Red California Computer Parts The Byte Shop. The other choices either came around long after the Apple I (which shows I don't know much about early computer shops) or were products of my imagination (I'm sure you can guess which two those were!). 4. Steve Wozniak was quoted as saying "It's Amazing!" on the cover of the October 1986 InCider magazine in response to the release of which Apple computer? The Apple IIgs The Apple IIc+ The Apple III The (first) Macintosh The Macintosh LC The Apple IIgs. 5. The dogcow's name is... Max Clarus Spot Freelance Cyberdog The dogcow's name is Clarus. 6. And what does a dogcow say? Marf Mooarf Moof Moowoof Oom oom A dogcow says moof. 7. Elk Cloner, Festering Hate, Burp, and Blackout are all: Apple II Viruses Macintosh Viruses Nicknames of people who work for 1-800-SOS-APPLE Nicknames of some of the people who programmed AOL software for Mac Nicknames of some of Apple's former CEOs A few answers may apply, but the first is (technically) correct. 8. Beagle Bros. Software was founded in: 1980 1982 1984 1986 1996 They were founded in 1980, as their logo proudly boasted. 9. Apple's own (but short-lived) Internet/BBS service was called: Uptime Apple Blossoms eWorld AppleNet Warp Six E-world. 10. Which of the following was NOT an Apple II magazine on disk? Uptime Softdisk Toolbox II Alive II Alive was an Apple II magazine, but never a disk. (If anybody can come up with another true Apple II mag disk to use as a choice, please let me know. Didn't fta have one, maybe?) 11. The following sentence was written in the in the introduction of the owner's manual to one of Apple's systems. The Apple [snip] is a complete microprocessor system, consisting of a Mos Technology 6502 microprocessor and support hardware, integral video display electronics, dynamic memory and refresh hardware, and fully regulated power supplies. It contains resident system monitor software, enabling the user, via the keyboard and display, to write, examine, debug, and run programs efficiently; thus being an educational tool for the learning of microprocessor programming, and aid in the development of software. For which computer was this written? Apple I Apple II Apple II+ Apple III LISA It was copied from page one of the Apple Operation Manual, for the first Apple computer. 12. The option key was once added to Apple's keyboard in place of the now extinct: Reset Open-Apple Closed-Apple Clear F16 Closed-Apple. And, to go off on a little tangent, don't ever call the open-apple key on your Apple II or Mac's keyboard "command" or "flower." By doing so, you're giving in to a little bit of IBM speak, since their keyboards had a command symbol first. Be proud of being a Mac user-- don't call it command, call it open-apple. 13. "In Speed We Trust" was the motto for for what software company? EPYX MECC PDE PBI FTA All were actual companies, but the correct choice is FTA (Free Tools Association). Their software still amazes me. 14. Which of the following Apple computers did NOT come standard with a mouse? Apple LISA Apple IIGS 512k Macintosh Macintosh LC II Powerbook 5300c The Powerbook 5300c came with a trackpad, not a mouse. 15. Who is currently the "senior editor" of MacAddict magazine? Cheryl England David Reynolds Nikki Echler Mark Simmons Gil Amelio Nikki Echler. (And convince this gal to plug my web page in her magazine. I'll give you a big banner on top of the Apple Quiz page that'll link to your homepage if you do!) 16. The original Apple Logo pictured: An Apple An Apple Tree Sir Isaac Newton An "Apple Computer" Banner All of the Above It pictured Sir Isaac Newton sitting beneath an apple tree with an apple over his head. And an Apple Computer Company banner wound around the whole design. To see the original logo, point your browser to: http://www.research.apple.com/extras/history/default.html 17. The first Macintosh Computer (not counting LISA) had how much RAM? 64 kilobytes 128 kilobytes 256 kilobytes 512 kilobytes 768 kilobytes 18. Steve Wozniak's Web page is at: http://www.woz.com http://www.woz.org http://www.wozniak.net http://www.wozniak.com http://www.wozniak.edu 'Tis at http://www.woz.org. 19. Which color is NOT in the current Apple LOGO? (Try not to cheat.) Indigo Purple Orange Green They all are! They all are... not. There is no indigo.