Comments on: SucK it, Nerds

By: rita

rita — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:15:15 +0000

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

By: Mark T

Mark T — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:36:00 +0000

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

By: JP

JP — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:32:41 +0000

Note: in between each of those exclamation points was a

yeah, irritating is correct.

By: JP

JP — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:29:27 +0000

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

By: Jimmy don\'t play that

Jimmy don\'t play that — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:09:32 +0000

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

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The Bandit Monco » Blog Archive » Call Me Abby — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:13:04 +0000

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By: Cammy

Cammy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:36:05 +0000

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

Wheee!

By: dogette

dogette — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:24:43 +0000

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

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:43:41 +0000

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.♪

By: More of a Geek Than Craig? | Rebels Are We!

More of a Geek Than Craig? | Rebels Are We! — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:14:33 +0000

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