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Dave's Old Survey Questionnaire Dave’s Old Survey Questionnaire What is your chronological age? Enter age ______ Did you grow up in the US? Enter Y or N ______ Who was the president when you were born? 10 - Franklin D. Roosevelt 9 - Harry S. Truman 8 - Dwight D. Eisenhower 7 - John F. Kennedy 6 - Lyndon B. Johnson 5 - Richard Nixon 4 - Gerald R. Ford 3 - Jimmy Carter 2 - Ronald Reagan 1 - George H. W. Bush Enter number ______ You have enjoyed music on these media: 9 - Edison wax cylinders 8 - 78 rpm records 7 - 45 rpm records 6 - 33 1/3 rpm records 5 - reel-to-reel tape 4 - 8-track tape 3 - cassette tape 2 - CDs 1 - mp3 Enter largest number ______ You remember a time before: FM radio Color TV broadcasts UHF channels Disneyland Jet airplanes Airport security Cellphones Area codes Zip codes Seat belts Personal computers Internet Israel Email Power car windows ATM machines Ball point pens Unleaded gas Power steering and power brakes Barbie & Ken Bat Mitzvahs (for girls) Disposable diapers Digital watches TouchTone telephones Birth control pills Two Madonnas Magic markers Anything metric Enter number of items ______ Dog clothing Bottled water Botox Joint replacements Electric toothbrushes Pre-nuptial agreements Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Equal & Splenda Prozac & Viagra Nonfat decafe Lattes, Cappuchinos, etc Closed captioning Pacemakers Sugarless gum Whiteboards Enter number of items ______ You remember: Radios that needed time to "warm up" Manual gear shift on the steering column Polio scare Playing marbles Telephone party lines Telephone exchanges Dialing “0” for operator assistance when you wanted to call long distance Dime pay phones & phone booths Dime comic books White wall tires Flash bulbs Carbon paper Mimeograph paper smell Cigarette commercials Cartoons instead of trailers at the movies Ink wells Kodachrome film Berlin Wall being built Berlin Wall being torn down Alaska and Hawaii becoming states LP Records available in both monaural and stereo Venus Paradise paint by number Duck & Cover drills in school Crayola crayons Doctors making house calls TV repairmen with a tool case of vacuum tubes Pop top soda cans CB radio craze Volkswagens were the only foreign car Inner tubes Tempra Paint Acoustic coupler modems Dial-up Computerized Bulletin Board Systems Princess telephones Gold at $35 an ounce Disneyland E tickets 5 cent packs of gum or baseball card packs Silly Putty Hopscotch & Jump Rope Elevator operators Home milk delivery Enter number of items ______ You lived through these wars / conflicts: War of the Worlds - radio – movie World War II Korean Conflict Cold War Vietnam War Arab / Israeli Wars I, II, III First Iraq War Iraq / Afghanistan War War of the Roses movie Gears of War Enter number of items ______ You had a: Slide rule Digital Calculator Hula hoop PF Flyers Pogo stick or stilts Bike with coaster brakes Roller skates & skate key Beatles wig Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys books Hasbro Easy Bake Oven Baseball card collection that your mother threw out Comic book collection that your mother threw out Stamp or coin collection Pluto Platter (precursor to a Frisbee) Enter number of items ______ You remember this space-related stuff: Sputnik IGY Vanguard Echo Telstar Voyager Mercury John Glenn's first space flight Gemini Apollo Astronauts landing on the moon Enter number of items ______ You watched: Elvis on Ed Sullivan Beatles on Ed Sullivan Bonanza JFK's funeral Howdy Doody Watch Mr Wizard Mickey Mouse Club Bewitched I Dream of Genie Three Stooges Amos & Andy Our Gang Laurel & Hardy Perry Como I Spy Superman Roller Derby Wrestling when it was real Make that Spare Dragnet My Favorite Martian Lost in Space Jetsons Mr Ed My Friend Flicka Smother's Brothers The Rifleman Have Gun, Will Travel Petticoat Junction Concentration Tic-Tac-Dough Queen for a Day Steve Allen Show Jack Parr Show Wild Wild West Batman Enter number of items ______ You remember gas less than: 4 - $.25 3 - $.50 2 - $1.00 1 - $2.00 Enter number ______ You remember postage less than 4 - $.05 3 - $.10 2 - $.20 1 - $.30 Enter number ______ Your first computer had this much system memory: 6 - Under 1 Kb 5 - About 64 Kb 4 - About 1 Mb 3 - About 10 Mb 2 - About 100 Mb 1 - About 1 Gb Enter number ______ Your first word processor was: 6 - Cut and paste using actual scissors and glue 5 - Toy printing press with rubber type 4 - Electric Pencil 3 - Wordstar 2 - Mac Write 1 - Word Perfect Enter number ______ Your first printer was: 8 – Teletype 7 - Converted IBM Selectric 6 - Thermal printer 5 - Daisy-Wheel 4 - Black & White Ink Jet 3 - Color Ink Jet 2 - Black & White Laser 1 - Color Laser Enter number ______ You stored your computer programs and data on: 8 - Punch cards 7 - Paper tape 6 - Audio cassette tape 5 - 8" floppies 4 - 5 1/4" floppies 3 - 3 1/2" floppies 2 - Hard disk drive 1- Thumb drive Enter largest number ______ Your first programming experience was: 9 - Toggling front panel switches 8 - Machine language 7 - Assembly language 6 - Fortran 5 - Cobol 4 - BASIC 3 - Pascal 2 - C 1 - Java Enter number ______ You considered buying these computers: Apple I Apple ][ Altair Cromemco Original IBM PC Commodore Pet Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 Amiga Enter number of items ______ Contribute other items: .
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