SucK it, Nerds

January 16th, 2008 | by Craig |

  1. 11 Responses to “SucK it, Nerds”

  2. By dogette on Jan 17, 2008 | Reply

    I’m shocked you didn’t score higher. No offense.

  3. By Craig on Jan 17, 2008 | Reply

    I think it’s because I had a couple of “normal” answers in there like “Whatever happened to dinner and a date.”

    Not nerdy enough for the nerds and too nerdy for the normal people.

    ♪Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.♪

  4. By dogette on Jan 17, 2008 | Reply

    I hear ya. Sometimes you try to answer like you think normal people would answer. It skews the results.

  5. By Cammy on Jan 17, 2008 | Reply

    Wow! I’m geekier than you, hon..and all I had to do was guess. I scored an 86 percent.

    Wheee!

  6. By Jimmy don\'t play that on Jan 17, 2008 | Reply

    Extra questions needed, since the quiz doesn’t measure paleogeekitude:
    (1) Was your first personal computer a PDP-11?
    (2) Did you ever develop a moon-lander computer game that used an oscilloscope for its graphical display?
    (3) Ever told your girlfriend “Not tonight, sweetie - I’m wire-wrapping the backplane on a VAX”
    (4) Can you code a ROM based floating point calculator (including square root function) in less than 2 kilobytes of assembler (256 bytes of scratch RAM allowed)?
    (5) Did you learn to type on an 029 keypunch (extra credit if you know what a keypunch is)?
    (6) Have you ever programmed a machine tool using paper tape?
    (7) Can you describe the architecture of the Z80 in 10 words or less?
    And finally, for double credit, have you ever bootstrapped a MITS Altair to cassette from the front panel switches?
    (By the way, real programmers wear cheap suits and black shiny FBI shoes, just like real engineers :-)

  7. By JP on Jan 17, 2008 | Reply

    I think I can get half credit on #2, as I spent months typing in code into an Apple //+ (not even an ‘e’ model) from a magazine using someone else’s program. I very clearly remember typing

    REM**OSCILLOSCOPE**

    and thinking ‘where in the heck am I going to find an oscilloscope’.

    Sadly, my teacher flaked and took away computer privileges late in the quarter and I never did get to finish the program.

    Actually, he had sound reason for taking it away. Someone replaced the *001 HOME program on his master disk with a very basic subroutine. Shame on the person who did it, too.

    10 HOME
    15 SPEED=100
    20 ?”MR. GRAY IS A DICK!!!!”;
    30 GOTO 20

  8. By JP on Jan 17, 2008 | Reply

    Note: in between each of those exclamation points was a <ctrl-g>

    yeah, irritating is correct.

  9. By Mark T on Jan 18, 2008 | Reply

    42% - That’s like way wrong though. I’m not a computer geek, but am totally nerdy in all other possible ways.

  10. By rita on Jan 18, 2008 | Reply

    Yay! I’m 60%. I was afraid the last year in the legal community had killed my geek brain.

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