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March 16th, 2001, 11:50 PM
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Friday Night Trivia #2
Maxximilian nailed the mouse and GUI question dead on. Shoot, I thought I might have at least someone scratching their heads!
Ok heres another
We ship computers via the mail and other carriers like UPS etc all the time now. Its commonplace
The first computer ever shipped in the mail was lost in the mail
What was it?
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March 17th, 2001, 12:42 AM
#2
I don't really know, but I would guess a Sinclair.
Here's a hot one. Who is the Countess of Lovelace, and what was her collaboration in the computer world. Makes good reading.
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March 17th, 2001, 12:57 AM
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You almost made me blow the dust off of my old computer books but I found this instead http://www.dcs.port.ac.uk/~lesterc/ada/Ada-Augusta.html
This is who the programming language ADA is named after
So, what was the name of the first computer lost in the mail?
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March 17th, 2001, 01:12 AM
#4
Wild guess time...Eckert- Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC) (Formerly Electronic Controls Company) The UNIVAC ????
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March 17th, 2001, 02:13 AM
#5
Good try max but that would take a warehouse
This one actually fit in a box
Anyone could buy it
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March 17th, 2001, 05:04 AM
#6
um......altair ?
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March 17th, 2001, 08:00 AM
#7
Lost??...my foot! Some postal worker has it sitting in a corner of his garage now collecting dust!
Was it an Apple?
Dave 
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March 17th, 2001, 08:11 AM
#8
Gotta agree with stylin, I think it was the Altair
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March 17th, 2001, 12:51 PM
#9
stylin19 & Bubba are both right
It was an Altair 8800
Story goes that they were shipping one to Popular Science magazine for that infamouse picture on the cover. It got lost in the mail. The one that appeared on the cover of the mag is nothing more than an empty box
The community college here still has one. It works too!
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March 17th, 2001, 11:16 PM
#10
Hi Stylin 19,
Brilliant signature
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[This message has been edited by teel63 (edited 03-17-2001).]
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