Dave’s Old Survey Questionnaire
What is your chronological age?
Did you grow up in the US?
Enter age
Enter Y or N
Who was the president when you were born?
10 - Franklin D. Roosevelt
9 - Harry S. Truman
6 - Lyndon B. Johnson
5 - Richard Nixon
2 - Ronald Reagan
1 - George H. W. Bush
You have enjoyed music on these media:
9 - Edison wax cylinders
5 - reel-to-reel tape
1 - mp3
8 - 78 rpm records
4 - 8-track tape
8 - Dwight D. Eisenhower 7 - John F. Kennedy
4 - Gerald R. Ford
3 - Jimmy Carter
Enter number
7 - 45 rpm records
3 - cassette tape
6 - 33 1/3 rpm records
2 - CDs
Enter largest number
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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
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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
Gemini
Apollo
Astronauts landing on the moon
Mercury
John Glenn's first space flight
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
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You remember postage less than
4 - $.05
3 - $.10
2 - $.20
1 - $.30
Enter number
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4 - About 1 Mb
1 - About 1 Gb
Enter number
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Your first computer had this much system memory:
6 - Under 1 Kb
5 - About 64 Kb
3 - About 10 Mb
2 - About 100 Mb
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
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Your first printer was:
8 – Teletype
7 - Converted IBM Selectric
3 - Color Ink Jet 2 - Black & White Laser
6 - Thermal printer
1 - Color Laser
You stored your computer programs and data on:
8 - Punch cards 7 - Paper tape 6 - Audio cassette tape
5 - 8" floppies
3 - 3 1/2" floppies
2 - Hard disk drive
1- Thumb drive
Your first programming experience was:
9 - Toggling front panel switches 8 - Machine language
4 - BASIC
3 - Pascal
2-C
You considered buying these computers:
Apple I
Apple ][
Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80
Contribute other items:
Altair
Amiga
Cromemco
5 - Daisy-Wheel 4 - Black & White Ink Jet
Enter number
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4 - 5 1/4" floppies
Enter largest number
7 - Assembly language
1 - Java
6 - Fortran
Enter number
Original IBM PC
Commodore Pet
Enter number of items
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5 - Cobol
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