History of Computing Trivia Quizzes

This quiz has pictures of ten long obsolete pieces of hardware, from the 1950s to the 1990s (and maybe a few years beyond). How many of those can you recognize - and how many have you actually used? Which device has which use?

A computer is machine that can store and work with large amounts of information. We will take a brief look at the development of calculating machines (computers) through the ages.

Test your knowledge of Windows 98.

Before Mac and PC, before C++, before Turbo Pascal, we learned to program an Apple II, Commodore 64, Atari 800, TRS-80, or a TI-99/4A. Whatever machine we used, we worked in BASIC. What do you remember about the programming language of the 70s and 80s?

Test your knowledge of the home computers of yesteryear by matching these clues with the computer in question.

Moore's Law states that the speed and capability of our computers increases every couple of years. Let's look at computing entities that no longer make the grade.

Believe it or not, computers existed before the IBM PC and the Internet. This quiz is about some of those "dinosaurs" that used to inhabit the world's data centers and the people who created them.

The internet is such an integral part of our daily lives, but it has only really been around for a relatively small period of time. Let's see how much you know about its history, from early development to what we use today.

Do you remember when computers used punched cards and card readers as the primary form of input? Probably not. But, here are a few interesting facts about the lowly punched card.

Internet came to transform our lives and relationships forever, but since the beginning it was plagued by vicious practices, most of them still alive today. Let's review some.

Just a few questions about Windows 9x.

There are lots of PC experts out there today. Not too many of them have knowledge that extends back to the early days of the PC. How good are you at early PC history?

This little quiz takes an in-depth look into the history of Microsoft Windows, more colloquially known as Windows.

A variety questions ranging from not too difficult to quite obscure from the 50's, 60's and 70's centering around business computers and their peripherals.

You will probably need to be a hard-core geek and a baby boomer to be good at this quiz. Can you process these little known facts about early digital computers and computer people? Some of the answers may surprise you!

Fifty years ago, on April 7, 1964, IBM announced System/360 computers intended to revolutionize the computer industry. This may be difficult for those who didn't experience the mainframe era, but additional information in the answer gives a perspective.

Much of the information fed back to programmers in IBM S360 was quite cryptic. Programmers were required to be master detectives sometimes just to find out what went wrong. How would you have survived in this era?

The introduction of the IBM 360 family of mainframe computers changed the face commercial computing. Here is a quiz about how much you know of the early years of this era.

This is a collection of computer trivia primarily from the '60s and '70s (all the correct answers are from those decades, but I have sprinkled some incorrect answers from other decades). Old-timers should have no problem with this one.

My career followed the growth of the data processing industry. At the time I attended college there were no majors in data processing. I gained most of my training on my own or on the job.

A quiz about the BBC Microcomputer, as used by schools across the UK throughout the 80's

This quiz will measure your understanding of installing, configuring, and upgrading the various flavors of MS operating systems and applications.

This Quiz covers the popular home computers of the 1980's manufactured by Sinclair.