Do you know your computers?

[WhiteCrow]

An interesting quiz - can you identify the following computers from the past ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7671677.stm

I got 9/10.

[SiHart]

Not very well. I scored 4/10 but did get the BBC Micro and ZX80 right. Perhaps my computer knowledge ends in 1984!

Si xx

[Dirk Gently]

I got 5/10.

[Alex]

Only 5/10 for me, I thought I'd do better as about 15 years ago a friend and I went through a stage of buying up old computers like the Dragon 32, Acorn Electron, etc, at car boot sales for ridiculous cheap prices and I had loads of them.

What's really gutting is that I ended up donating them to a charity shop when my Mum moved house in 2002, and about a year later found out that I could have earnt a couple of hundred quid selling them on ebay (in total, not each, obviously).

[WhiteCrow]

I've had a go on the emulators of Spectrum games.

I remember the Spectrum being a golden age of computer games, but you play them now and they are a bit boring - still have potential as mobile phone games though I guess.

[Larry]

but did get the BBC Micro
Si xx

I certainly recognised that one from the ones we had at school...me I got two right ..

[Larry]

I remember the Spectrum being a golden age of computer games, but you play them now and they are a bit boring - .

not half as boring as the Atari games - to think people wasted hours just staring at a tv screen with a white dot going from left to righ and back again .

[Thasc]

I scored 6/10. Not bad to say I don't really know that much about makes and models of computers

[Paul Monk]

I got 7/10. Bit annoying as I made a couple of schoolboy errors.

[Stuart Wallis]

5/10 - one point for owning one of the consoles in question, the rest were complete guesses.

[duncan]

I got 6/10 but that was down to pure guess work on most.