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February 14, 2006
Trivial Tuesday #6
Week 6:
1. Conan O'Brien has been endorsing the re-election of the President of which country due to a resemblance the two share? Bonus Question: Which Television show did Conan recently (in the last 7 days) make a cameo appearance?
2. The 48th annual Grammy Awards were held last week. What is the most Grammy's any artist has won in one night, and who did it?
3. On Saturday Dick Cheney shot a 78 year old hunting partner while Quail hunting. When, where, and who were the last two involved in a Vice Presidential shooting?
4. I've seen several articles asking what your first computer was. So, what was your first?
5. The 2006 Winter Olympics are underway in Torino. Who won the first Gold Medal for the US?
Posted by mhader at February 14, 2006 3:24 PM
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4. Our first computer was a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. It hooked to the TV for a screen, and the rest was under the keyboard. I've read that it was a 1 Mhz machine with 16KB of RAM. We used it to play the one cartridge game we owned, and to program in BASIC. It's on the top shelf of my closet now. They came out in 1981, but I'm not sure when Dad got ours.
Our first computer that was actually useful was my grandmother's "KAYPRO PC". It was a 286 machine that ran at 6-8 Mhz. It came with a hard drive, I think 10 MB at most. We used DOS 2.11 on it. My grandmother let me use it, and then it became ours when she upgraded to a new 386. I still have it in my mom's attic. :) The software says 1984, but I think she got this in 1985, which is the release date you see most often connected to this model.
Fun trivia: The Kaypro used an ATI graphics card.
Posted by: Ben at February 14, 2006 5:08 PM
4) Our first computer was technically the TI home computer, as well. It's still in the box at my parents house... never used. The first one that we actually used at the house was a Tandy 1000 TL/2 that we got about '89-'90 or so. It had a 80286 8/4MHz, 640K RAM, no hard drive, a 720K DD diskette drive, 2400 baud modem, and incredible CGA (16-color) graphics. I even managed to get WWIV BBS v4.23 to run on one DD diskette, but I had to run the configuration program on a separate disk.
Posted by: Jonathan at February 14, 2006 7:12 PM
So do you know what your first computer was?
Posted by: dad at February 15, 2006 7:30 AM