Quiz: remember this one…?

1

This is the 1530 cassette player from Commodore, among others
suitable for the VIC-20 and the C64. How many KB goes with
normal (= non-turbo) speed on 45 minutes of cassette tape?

A. 75 KB
B. 150 KB
C. 300 KB
D. 600 KB

2

What kind of cable is this and what is it (even to this day) used for?

A. Serial to SCSI. A hard drive cable
B. Serial to Parallel. A floppy disk cable
C. Parallel to Serial. A modem cable
D. Parallel to Centronics. A printer cable

3

This is the Sinclair ZX81, a for its time (1981) ultra-
cheap home computer.
How much memory does a Sinclair ZX81 have ‘ex works’?

A. 1 KB
B. 4 KB
C. 16 KB
D. 64 KB

4

This is a so-called daisy-wheel printer; in Dutch
also called a daisy wheel printer.
Why is this type of printer relatively slow?

A. Each A4 sheet must be set separately.
B. There is always a slow processor in this type of printer
C. The letters are, like a typewriter,
1-for-1 hammered onto the paper
D. The data becomes serial instead of parallel
transferred

5

This is an IBM color display intended for the CGA
(= Color Graphics Adapter) graphics card.
How many colors could be put away
on the ‘game resolution’ 320 x 200 pixels?

A. 2 colors. Black and white
B. 4 colors. With two adjustable color palettes
C. 256 colors. Choice of 65536 colours
D. 16.7 million colors

6

This is the Hercules graphics card for the IBM PC.
What’s so special about this graphics card?

A. It is the first graphics card with 16-bit (= 65536)
colors
B. It is a graphics resolution of 720 x 348 and a
80 x 25 . character screen
C. This graphics card can also be connected
on the television in the living room
D. This graphics card does not need to be cooled separately
with an extra fan

7

This is the iconic Commodore 1541, a disk drive for
5.25 inch floppy disks.
Which type of 5.25 inch diskette has (if correct
formatted) the largest storage capacity?

A.Single Sided / Single Sensity
B. Single Sided / Double Sensity
C. Double Sided / Single Density
D. Double Sided / Double Density

8

This is a 16-bit Ethernet card, to be exact
the 3COM EtherLink III.
How fast is the Ethernet of this network card?

A. 1 Mbit/second
B. 2.5 Mbit/second
C. 10 Mbit/second
D. 12.5 Mbit/second

9

Who hasn’t owned it, such a SupraFAXModem
14400? A price/performance breakthrough at the time.
What was the VB type (= Voice Band) of this modem?

A.V.32
B.V.32bis
C. V.32terbo
D.V.32flex

10

The ZIP drive was a nice alternative to the floppy drive
and the CD-ROM drive.
Why actually?

A. The ZIP drive connects in parallel and works with
100MB disks. Later with 250 and 750 MB discs
B. The ZIP drive works with ZIP disks, but can also
reading floppies and CD discs
C. The ZIP drive is an external storage device that
does not need its own power adapter
D. To work with the ZIP drive
you don’t need separate drivers