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-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?
The moon is actually more useful than the sun since the moon gives us light at night when it's dark. The sun only gives us light during the day when it's already bright out.
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Re: Trivia
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10/01/15 07:34 AM
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Think #5 might be 1048576? 
Last edited by Urban Worrier; 10/01/15 07:35 AM.
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Re: Trivia
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10/01/15 12:14 PM
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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"
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Re: Trivia
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10/01/15 12:26 PM
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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.
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