Retro Technology and Music Quiz:

1. Which of the following have you seen?

a. Edison wax cylinder recording
b. Single-sided disc recording
c. 78 RPM recording
d. 45 RPM recording

2. Have you heard any of the above recording types playing on an appropriate device? If so, which?

3. Which of the following have you seen?

a. Glass-plate negative
b. Daguerreotype
c. Stereoscope image pairs
d. 120 Film/120 Film camera

4. Did You Ever Own

a. A Brownie camera?
b. A cap gun?
c. A rotary phone?
d. A Walkman?
e. A cassette player?

5. Did you ever listen to (bonus points if in person):

a. The Platters
b. Dinah Washington
c. John Lee Hooker
d. Art Tatum
e. Risë Stevens

6. Which floppy disks do you remember?

a. IBM 8 in.
b. DEC 8 in.
c. 5 1/4 in.
d. HP 3 and 3 1/2

7. Did you ever lust for a Selectric Typewriter?

8. What was your first word processing program/system? Does it still exist?

9. Which of the following word processing systems have you used?

a. Wang
b. WordPerfect
c. ed/emacs
d. IBM 3730

10. Have you ever been to an opera? If yes, by

a. Mozart
b. Anton Weber
c. Richard Wagner
d. Alban Berg
e. John Adams

11. (Bonus question, not to be scored) How old are you feeling now?

Scoring: Use your own scoring model. Mine is one point of each positive answer. Any total over 30 means that you’re really old (like me) or really cool (maybe like me since I created the questionnaire, it’s a matter of taste). And you’re certainly NOT under 30, maybe not ever under 40 … or 50.