OT: The Geek Test

Not too much of a problem. The gifted students would already know!

I wish that were the case... it isn't.

David Erbas-White

Doing synthetic programming on the HP-41 ought to score big. How about knowing FORTRAN? Or building a circuit to tell you when the Christmas tree needs water?

Brad Hitch

How about the integral of d(cabin)/cabin = log cabin

(actually it's ln(cabin) + c ..... = houseboat )

Brad Hitch

SO what DOES the T. stand for? I don't remember ever hearing that one (and I should have).

One point for knowing synthetic programming. One point for knowing how to make the 'byte grabber' One point for knowing what the "PPC Journal" was. One point for being published in it.

David Erbas-White

But you really have to read the books to get that, as she gets all of about 2 lines of text in the entire trilogy. That was my point.

Had a PDP-11/03, 11/08, 11/34, and 11/35.

D20, and one of the best neuton moderators

Florence flask has a spherical body, and a Erlenmeyer is conical.

Photo-electric effect. A process where electrons can be ejected or "moved" from the surface of a material by by the action of light ot higher energy waves. It the basis for X-ray Photoelecton Spectroscopy(XPS)

Tiberious

My additions:

Still have your lab notebooks from college

Played Super Start Trek on a PDP-11 at the Commodore level and exceeded the capability of the program.

Know the difference between a RK, RL-01, and RL-02 drive.

Know what a "dollar" is in reactor terminology

Know what a delayed neutron is and why it is important.

Enjoy performing prompt criticality experiments

Know what Cherinkov radiation is

Completed a DD-298 form and realized what a nerd you are by the responses.

John

I remember hearing it. Tiberius or Tiberian.

steve

How many points for having Star Trek on a Vectrex? ; )

Randy

I've got a circular that comes with its own pocket protector.

I've also got a 22? scale Pickett. And at least 1, maybe 2 more. I'll plead ignorance on who K&E is for th emoment, but it will probably come back to me when someone else identifies it.

I think anything of that vintage had less than 1MB capacity.

Why I said BAORD and not TOOL...

Been there done that.

Was there a 4040? I remember the 4004.

Actually, of the entire PDP family, only the PDP-11 had a power-of-2 bits.

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and destroyed the only McDonalds on the moon!

Still got some terminators lying around. I think one is named Arnold :-)

There were 40-50 or more formats, and the capacity varied for many of them.

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Because she's a HOT BABE!

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Our office just shut down our A-series production box. It's been a 7 year migration to Tru64 Alpha which HP/Compaq was nice enough to kill off just before we got there.

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Trailing edge tech!

Get a Mac.

Boy, forgot all about that one. We had one in our college Comp Sci lab. A hollow tapered cylinder, but IIRC memory was a disk, not a drum.

I also worked on some old Burroughs junk that had main memory on head per track disk, with extra heads on the accumulator track. 60 bit word IIRC.

The CDC 6000 mainframe we had in college was also a 60 bit word.

The Univac 1108 we accessed in high school had 36 bit words IIRC. I never saw that machine in person.

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There was a 4040 - same basic thing, with some improvements. (I designed a system that used them, back in 1977...)

-dave w

How about the crew of every Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo (including ASTP and Skylab) flight...

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Didn't they all have a key hole for the first sector.

I remember RK05 disk platters with a timing ring that marked the start of each sector. 12 16 bit block sectors for the PDP-11, 16 12 bit block sectors for the PDP-8.

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Ever halt the machine, change the fuel value, then continue :-)

Ethernet is 50. TV is 75.

He who smelt it delt it...

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