Macintosh Trivia

1. The Apple company was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne and...

From Quiz Mac Attack! A Brief History of Apple Computers

Answer: Steve Wozniak

Apple was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. The company was originally founded to sell the Apple I personal computer, machines hand built by Steve Wozniak in the living room of the Jobs household. 200 of these machines were eventually built.

From Quiz Basic Apple Knowledge

Answer: The Apple Lisa

Apple Newtons were Palm-like devices introduced in the early 1990s.

From Quiz Mac OS X

Answer: dock

The dock is a new innovation for OS X. It can be positioned on the left side, bottom, or right side of your screen.

From Quiz Apple and the Mac OS

Answer: $666.66

Only 220 copies of the Apple I were made until they came out with the popular Apple II. Now, they are collectors items worth much more than {$666.66.}

From Quiz Macintosh Troubleshooting for OS 9

Answer: Are you trying to run the program from the Apple Menu?

In my experience, most users don't understand that Apple Menu items are just aliases to their programs, and that if the program is moved somewhere new on the hard drive, the alias will no longer work. Fixing the alias usually makes 'em happy.

From Quiz Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright... on My Laptop!

Answer: widgets

Dashboard is a layer that appears when its icon is clicked in the Dock, when the cursor is moved into a hot corner, or when a hot key is pressed. (Hot keys and corners are set by the user). Some examples of widgets are stopwatches, timers, FTP interfaces, stickies, and reminders. Historical note: "Desk accessories" is a term from the early days of Macintosh (the 1980s), when the System (as it was called) had little to no multi-tasking capability. The Desk Accessories, or DAs, were very small, helper-type programs (e.g. Alarm Clock) that were actually a special class of driver that could run while other applications, such as MS Word or MacPaint, were running. They were directly installed into System's DRVR resources. In 1991, System 7 introduced co-operative multitasking, which eliminated the need for DAs, but they continued to be supported through Mac OS 9.

From Quiz Mac Attack! A Brief History of Apple Computers

Answer: Macintosh II

The Mac II was the first Mac with color capabilities--a graphics card could be installed capable of handling up to 16.7 million colors! It originally sold for $3,898 for the basic system, and at $5,498 for 1 MB of RAM, one 800K floppy disk drive and one 40 MB internal SCSI hard disk drive.

From Quiz Basic Apple Knowledge

Answer: Palo Alto Research Center

The modern mice, windows, and icons style of software interface was invented at PARC along with the laser printer and the local-area network.

From Quiz Mac OS X

Answer: Command+Shift+N

This is something new in OS X as well. In previous operating systems, Command+N created a folder. Now it opens a new Finder window.

From Quiz Apple and the Mac OS

Answer: PepsiCo

It was John Sculley. Apple also came out with a Mac Classic. Their answer to Coke Classic? You decide.

From Quiz Mac Attack! A Brief History of Apple Computers

Answer: Local Integrated System Architecture

The Apple Lisa was a computer project which started in 1978 and eventually built in the early 1980s. The Lisa project was the first commercial PC with a graphical user interface (GUI) targeted specifically at business consumers. Although not directly linked with the Macintosh project, the Lisa was a more advanced system than the first Macintosh.

From Quiz Basic Apple Knowledge

Answer: The 'Smalltalk' Environment running on an Alto

Smalltalk was a graphic oriented programming language developed at PARC.

From Quiz Mac OS X

Answer: Control

This is the same thing that happens when you right-click on a two button mouse.

From Quiz Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright... on My Laptop!

Answer: VoiceOver

VoiceOver treated the user interface as a series of elements with which it interacts. By clicking in a textbox, for example, it would read what the user typed. VoiceOver was later added to the operating systems of the iPods and the iPhones. VoiceOver used the same voices of Fred, Junior, Kath, Ralph, and Victoria, and Zarvox, introduced in the MacInTalk Pro speech synthesizing technology of the 1990s. Unlike the earlier technology, however, VoiceOver could not only read the text on a monitor, it could also read refreshable Braille displays, which are electro-mechanical devices with round-tipped pins that emerge through holes to form braille characters. Historical notes: Universal Access was introduced with Jaguar (10.3) and provided capabilities to the blind, deaf, dyslexic, and other disabled persons in one preference pane of System Preferences. Features included sticky keys, inverse colors, flashes for alert sounds, larger cursor size, etc.

From Quiz Mac Attack! A Brief History of Apple Computers

Answer: MacPaint

The Macintosh 128k was the original Apple computer. It was first introduced in January 1984 at the price of US$2495, and included a keyboard and mouse. The Macintosh 128k was packaged in a beige case which included a built-in 9in - yes 9 inch - monitor.

From Quiz Basic Apple Knowledge

Answer: Object Oriented Programming

He says this on the programme 'Triumph of the Nerds'.

From Quiz Apple and the Mac OS

Answer: Pig mode

If you hold down the Command(Apple)-Option-Shift keys and select About ResEdit from the Apple menu you get into pig mode. What does it do? Well, nothing.

From Quiz Macintosh Troubleshooting for OS 9

Answer: Your Network Administrator is watching you

It's a neat little feature of Network Security, so the admin can track down things like how many people are using a Filemaker Pro database, typing data into Excel...or downloading the latest hits from Napster!

From Quiz Mac Attack! A Brief History of Apple Computers

Answer: Macintosh

Released with much fanfare in January of 1984, the Macintosh was the first affordable computer to include a Graphical User Interface. It was built around the new Motorola 68000 chip, which was significantly faster than previous processors, running at 8 MHz. The Mac came in a small beige case with a black and white monitor built in.

From Quiz Basic Apple Knowledge

Answer: They buried them all like corpses

This is well documented. There are still unused Lisas available to buy at www.sunremarketing.com

From Quiz Mac OS X

Answer: Classic & Classic environment

I found Classic quite helpful when OS X first came out because few applications were available for it.

From Quiz Apple and the Mac OS

Answer: 1994

From Quiz Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright... on My Laptop!

Answer: JavaScript support

JavaScript support had been standard on Safari (and most other web browsers at the time) for years by the mid-2000s, although Safari 2.0 offered improved speed. RSS stands for Rich Site Summary, which is a website technology that allows publishers to syndicate data into web feeds or channels that regularly change their content. For example, RSS is particularly useful for news feeds. The user simply had to press the button on the address bar. This was a new, cutting-edge feature for the Safari 2.0 web browser packaged with Tiger in 2005. Future note: By the way, Safari 2.0.4, available on the Mac OS X Update 10.4.4 (the last Tiger update), was the last version of Safari released exclusively for Mac OS until version 6, when it was integrated into Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8).

From Quiz Mac Attack! A Brief History of Apple Computers

Answer: Claims they infringed Apple's copyrighted GUI

In 1988 Apple sued Microsoft and Hewlett Packard on the grounds that they infringed Apple's copyrighted graphical user interface. Apple stressed the specific infringements related to the use of rectangular, overlapping, and resizable windows. After a four year trial, including multiple appeals, Apple eventually lost the case. Many in the software industry at the time accused Apple of blatantly trying to monopolise the GUI market.

From Quiz Basic Apple Knowledge

Answer: It was the name of one of America's favorite apples

While available worldwide, Macintosh apples are not among the most popular in England. 'The Apple Braeburn' sounds better to me anyway.

From Quiz Apple and the Mac OS

Answer: 6800x0 series to PowerPC series

The newer PowerPC had a RISC based achitecture and was able to emulate the older Motorola 6800x0 chips.

From Quiz Mac Attack! A Brief History of Apple Computers

Answer: Launch three new computers at low price points -- the Macintosh Classic, the Macintosh LC and the Macintosh IIsi

Microsoft Windows 3.0 was released in May 1990 and became popular as it was more user-friendly and cheaper than the Macintosh platform. Apple responded by releasing a range of much cheaper Macs in October 1990 - the Macintosh Classic, Macintosh LC (US$1800) and the Macintosh IIsi (US$2500). All three machines sold well, but Apple's profit margin was considerably lower due to the price cuts.

From Quiz Apple and the Mac OS

Answer: Pascal

Yup, it was Pascal with some OO extensions.

From Quiz Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright... on My Laptop!

Answer: access control lists (ACLs)

Darwin already had traditional Unix permissions, but added ACLs in a more sophisticated way - they tell the operating system which rights each user has to each object (directory, file, etc.). For the average user, this was neither here nor there, but for server operators and technicians this was a boon. Protocols like ssh were already supported by Darwin before Tiger. More technical info: Mac OS X prior to 10.4 supported traditional POSIX-compliant permissions. From 10.4 and beyond, Mac OS X added support for NFSv4 ACLS as well as traditional permissions. It also supported the classic Mac OS (9.2 and earlier) "Protected" file attribute (a non-Unix feature).

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