-1. In the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Scotty mistakenly attempts to communicate with a 20th-century computer by speaking into what device?
-2. Many stars have been celebrity spokesmen for computer companies over the years. For which company did William Shatner advertise?
-3. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, best known as the creators of Apple computers, also designed a popular arcade game for the original Atari videogame machine. What was the name of the game?
-4. What does the Japanese word "atari" mean?
-5. What is the exact number of bytes in a megabyte?
-6. What was often added to ink jet printer ink to prevent microorganisms from clogging the jets? [a----------] (same thing we might be given if we get stuffed up)
-7. In the sequence kilobytes, megabytes, and terabytes, what are the next two terms?
-8. In George Orwell's novel 1984, advanced technology allows "Big Brother" to watch everyone everywhere. How many times are computers mentioned in the novel?
-9. The DataGlove is a virtual reality device that lets users interact with a computer using hand motions. For what purpose was it first invented? [t- p--- a-- g-----]
-10. How much main memory did the original IBM PC come with?

1. the computer's mouse

2. I'm thinking either Radio Shack or Commodore

3. Breakout
I held the high score for this game on a machine at a local bar until they got rid of the machine. Never knew that if you got to a certain level it just quit, until I got there.

5. one million

Think #5 might be 1048576?

7. petabytes, exabytes

Great answers! Paul has the modern one to #5.

Cheryl, that's funny! I thought the games just kept going forever.

I don't see James T. Kirk mentioned anywhere in this thread. Me thinks you're cheatin' a bit!

8. I'll guess that this is a trick question..."zero"

10. Somewhere in the teens (15-16)K. I only know this because when I got my first PC in the late '90's my husband (a systems analyst at that time) was amazed that my computer's memory was in megabytes.

4.to hit the target

Hey a Kirk sighting.

I figured #1 and 2 combined made it close enough.

Cue got the trick question, Fil got the 16K.

Haroula, that's not my answer.

4. success

Hmmmm. My source claims the word comes from the game Go and means "warning", but google does not agree, so both Haroula and manxman are correct.

6 I assume it must be antibiotics?

That's correct!

9. to play air guitar

You rock, Sondi!