Weekly Classic Computer Trivia Question (20150204)
Geoff Oltmans
oltmansg at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 14:16:43 CST 2015
1. SAL
2. WOPR - War Operations Planned Response
3. Not sure..after the guitar company?
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> On Feb 4, 2015, at 10:37 AM, Doug Ingraham <dpi at dustyoldcomputers.com> wrote:
>
> This time lets refer to some classic fictional computers used in movies.
> Everyone probably knows about the HAL 9000 used in the movie 2001 a Space
> Odyssey.
>
> What was the name of HAL's sister computer in the movie 2010 Odyssey two?
>
>
> That was a warm up question. This one should be more difficult.
>
> What was the designation of the computer in the movie WarGames and what
> does it mean?
>
>
> And finally,
>
> As silly as it was the movie Hackers referred to the mainframe computer in
> the movie as a Gibson.
>
> Where did the term Gibson come from?
>
>
>
>
> --
> Doug Ingraham
> PDP-8 SN 1175
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