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Answers to Bob
Green’s Trivia Quiz
1. Dave
Packard’s garage.
2. They
didn’t work on HP-IB machines (Series 40, 44, etc.).
3. Sun Gold,
Woodgrain, Marine Blue, and Red.
4. The bird
drives the snake away.
5.
database.utility became Adager, Larc Editor became TDP, Dollar Flow
became Cognos PowerPlan, IMACS became Rapid, then Transact.
6. Monday
Night Football.
7. Mike Green.
8. Doug Mecham.
9. SPL II.
10. They
inserted words in front of Q-Initial to handle INFO=.
11. Jim
Hewlett, son of Bill Hewlett.
12. A second cpu.
13 HP 300
computer, Series 44, 9140 cartridge tape for 7914 disc, 2392 CRT,
2382 CRT, ATP, 2687 Laser printer, and Series 64.
14. Jim Dunbar.
15. A
precursor to KSAM, supported as INDEX/3000 on the Series I, still
living as a conversion program, RTOKSAM.PUB.SYS.
16. ISS
(Information Storage Systems).
17. A
bankrupt nunnery near Issaquah, Washington.
18. There was
none.
19. Francisco.
20. The late
release and poor quality of Q MIT.
21. A 1978
talk on Memory Management that was videotaped.
22. HP
employees releasing 10,000 balloons to celebrate the delivery of the
10,000th HP 3000.
Answers to
Eugene’s Questions:
1. Add,
End/Exit, Insert, Or, Use.
2. DEL/3000.
3. Deputy
Secretary of Defense, 1969-1971.
4. House of
Parliament.
5. It was an
APL terminal.
6. The
message “My mind is going...”
7. The
DISPLAY FUNCTIONS light starts blinking — you’re in Monitor
Mode.
8. NUL, ENQ, DEL.
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