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Continuing from the previous question.
C created a famous programming language D, initially intended as a way to teach students structured programming. But it also became popular for production. D, named after a french mathematician, was the primary high level language used in the development of E.
E was an iconic PC that was, unfortunately, a commercial failure. Some say that E was named for its creator’s daughter. (Incidentally, one particular B from A is primarily found on E and its descendents :) )
The GUI of E was influenced by another iconic PC in development at that time - F. The creators of E paid a visit to the place where F was being created and spent a while figuring out how to make things work.
D, E and F, please, for one point in total.
C created a famous programming language D, initially intended as a way to teach students structured programming. But it
also became popular for production. D, named after a french mathematician, was the primary high level language used in the
development of E.
E was an iconic PC that was, unfortunately, a commercial failure. Some say that E was named for its creators daughter.
(Incidentally, one particular B from A is primarily found on E and its descendents :) )
The GUI of E was influenced by another iconic PC in development at that time - F. The creators of E paid a visit to the place where F was being created and spent a while figuring out how to make things work.
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D - The pascal language
Plain text question -
A was designed by Tom Knight at MIT. One of the most influential devices of its kind, it had seven Bs. Bs, though they seem to have something to do with carbon molecules, were actually named after Swiss computer scientist C. A few of the Bs from A live on today.
Just fill in A, **B **and **C **to get one point.
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A = the Space Cadet Keyboard,
Where can you find this clock?
Happy 4th of July to our American readers!
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Quoting Sandeep - The Galvano-Magnetic Clock is on the east wall of the Royal Observatory building,Greenwich. It was manufactured by Shepherd, Patentee, 53 Leadenhall Street, London.
Identify the device. The image should have all the clues you need.
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Shakey the robot - created at Stanford Research Institute - was a mobile robot that could reason out commands given to it and execute them.
Non-serious question for today. What did I ask below (blanked out)?
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Ask Wolfram|Alpha what men/women want and it gives up with this diplomatic footnote :)
This collection caused quite some buzz a year or so ago - as much for its business model as for its content!
No need to identify each, just name the collection
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The first “Humble India Bundle” - a collection of 6 cross platform indie games. Buyers could pay how much ever they wanted to whoever they wanted, it was just a bundle of good games!
Sitter for the day (kinda making up for the delay, I guess?). What is this a map of? This is not an exhaustive list.
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Intel products are typically codenamed by the names of places around where they were designed. This is a map of a few such places.
Today’s question comes to us from %gqh% Dibyo, to celebrate his 1000 point run :)
Cryptic Question: This is three of what?
(AutoRaja will probably not be able to handle this answer very well, so it’ll be evaluated manually eventually)
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More good news today - udupendra has hit 1000 points! Excellent stuff saar - congratulations!
udupendra was one of the earliest people on this site, and has been a regular face for years now. This is also definitely not his first record here :) He was consistently topping the charts at BB before receiving some very stiff competition! Here’s hoping for many, many more answers from you!
Udupendra gets a star of honor – an achievement badge plus a special badge as well.
Today’s question’s dedicated to udupendra of course :) (although there’s no ‘1000’ funda in this question like there was in yesterday’s)
Very simple - identify the ‘system’ being depicted here.
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The three locations of NASA/JPL’s Deep Space Network. You will notice they are roughly 120 degrees apart, giving the ‘best’ coverage to track deep space spacecraft.
Hello intrepid quizzers! Today is a landmark day in the history of Boiledbeans :) Those of you who’ve been keeping track of the scores would have noticed this already.
Dibyo has just scored ONE THOUSAND POINTS!
Congratulations Mr. Dibyo! This is no mean feat, and we at BB really appreciate the effort! It’s always great to see people regularly coming onto BB to answer questions and really encourages us to keep posting.
Dibyo gets a star of honor - an achievement badge plus a special badge that we’ll apply shortly.
Today’s question is also dedicated to Dibyo!
The box in the map below points out a special path. Which vehicle holds the record for the fastest crossing of this path (albeit inaccurate)?
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The Millennium Falcon - Han Solo’s ship from Star Wars - completed the “Kessel Run” in 12 parsecs (ridiculous as that sounds).