Patrick loves to stir “stuff.” For example: “Here’s a new set of questions based on the ever-popular argument: Mac vs. PC! And I’ll repeat a statement from last week’s set of questions: there are no right or wrong answers…just your own opinions.”
First to play last week: Jude of “My Way.” Congratulations!
Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!
1. What was the brand and model (if you remember) of the first computer you remember using? NorthStar Horizon – it was a loaner from my younger brother. He'd built it by hand (literally – thousands of components that needed to be soldered to circuit boards by hand) in 1980 and completed his college thesis with it – the first computer program for calculating ceramic glazes. He sold all rights to it to Corning Glass and it never saw the light of day. The PC world was moving too fast and the standard shifted to IBM PC's shortly thereafter. I'd actually used a computer (IBM mainframe) ten years earlier in college. Lordylordylordy, how I hated punch cards!
2. What year do you remember using a home computer for the first time? 1981
3. Hype aside, which platform do you prefer: Mac or PC? For most people who only need a computer for simple things, for it's ease of use and the quirky nature of its supporters, I prefer a Mac. When I require hardware flexibility, broad (free or inexpensive) software choices the PC + Unix combination is my favorite. What I have and hate is a Micro$oft Windoze PC.
4. Take the quiz: Are you a Mac or PC?
| You are a PC |
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You're practical, thrifty, and able to do almost anything. Appearances and trends aren't important to you. You just like to get the job done. |
5. How fair would you consider the quiz to be based on the responses? I dislike “either/or” quizzes – far too limited a response range. Consequently, it isn't a fair representation of my preferences.
6. If money were no object, what brand of computer would you most likely purchase? A Cray supercomputer.
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2 comments:
I remember the punch cards and how I hatred them. We used an IBM 1620 to programed in FORTAN and the first program was using Crammer's Rule to solve for three variables.
I use to hate it when I made an error typing and I had to Dup all the way up to the error. Then I would inadvertently Dup the error. Agh!
I dunno what we used when I was in High School - but they tried to teach is BASIC on it! That was in 1981!
My first puter was a second-hand Mac Plus - did everything I needed a glorified typewriter to do! lol
Cyalayta
Mal :)
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