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Bernie66



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 06 3:27 pm    Post subject: Apple is 30, but how well do you know it Reply with quote
    

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4860790.stm


I got 4 right but have never claimed to be a computer wizz

sally_in_wales
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 06 3:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I got 3, I think apples grow on trees

Bernie66



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 06 3:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We will all get letured later on the benefits of Apple by the boffins

Lozzie



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 06 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'm saddened that I only got 4 right because one of my favourite films is The Pirates Of Silicon Valley -


bernie-woman



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 06 4:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I got 5 right - scuppered by dates for logos and ad campaigns amongst other things

Penny Outskirts



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 06 4:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

4, probably the fumes from oven cleaning!!

dpack



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 06 5:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

4 am i detecting a theme ?.
i only ever used an early one , it could integrate a curve .
having pcs and using mr gates systems i dont know much about the mac ,some of my pals prefer them for graphics and web building but as im beginning to get to grips with a pc system i think i'll stick with the devil i (almost )know .

trigfa



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 06 6:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

7

....and I've never owned an Imac or an Ipod, but if anyone wants to rectify that feel free

Bernie66



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 06 6:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

trigfa wrote:
7

....and I've never owned an Imac or an Ipod, but if anyone wants to rectify that feel free




alison
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 06 9:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

4 for me too

mrutty



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 06 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

6

Why didn't they ask the height that an Apple had to be dropped from to resit the chips (and the reason to this day that I refuse to buy another one)

oddballdave



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 06 9:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

6 for me.
I remember using the original machines...
oh so long ago.
But the logo question was even older than that!!!

Gervase



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 02, 06 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Oh dear, I'm a sad sod - eight right. But I have been using Macs since 1987.

dougal



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 02, 06 5:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Look, I only got 9. OK?

And I want to complain about the one I got wrong.
I guessed that the "greatest gadget" as decided by some american magazine might be the iPod, despite it's only real innovations were a half decent user interface and the use of a hard drive rather than flash chips...
I didn't think that they could possibly have selected the PB100. I mean really, the PB140 and PB170 were introduced on the very same day, were real Apple products, and much, much better than the slightly pathetic 100. (The PowerBook 100 was a Sony re-design and manufacture job on the original hefty Mac Portable.) The 170 was a fine machine and used a crisp active matrix (tft) LCD screen (like the Portable) unlike the sad 100 which had a comparatively sludgy and smeary passive matrix screen. The 140 and 170 also used NiMH high capacity batteries, unlike the 100 which had a lead/acid gel battery - a design carryover from the portable.
Unquestionably the 170 was the best machine introduced that day, and more like today's laptops than the 100. (Even if the 100 did lack a built-in floppy, that shouln't make it any reasonable person's greatest gadget ever...)







Bernie66



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 02, 06 6:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

You clearly need flogging then

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