I saw this on an Ad today and I had to ask someone else to find out.
Who invented Basketball?
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I saw this on an Ad today and I had to ask someone else to find out.
Who invented Basketball?
James Naismith, 1891 IIRC...
.... umm, very quick with the response too. Why did I not know this?! Shame on me....
OK, one for you....
We have all seen pictures/movies with computer connected to Teletypes (hard copy terminals which also could read/punch paper tape)...
I happen to own 3 working ASR/KSR-33 models.. :D
The question... What year was the Teletype INVENTED????
It know all.
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
Close.... You missed the mark on a technicallity.. :p
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1928: Teletype invented by Morkrum & Kleinschmidt (Germany)
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The technicallity was that the term "Teletype" was not used prior to this date (even though the earlier machines were nearly identical in function).
Well, if you count the old stock ticker tape machines, then the date is late 1870's :)
Well, the stock tickers were really a sort of different beast...
My quible was specifically that from 1906-1927/1928 the machines made by Krum & Morton were keyboard/printer systems that communicated over telegraph wires, but they were not identified by the term "Teletype",
Now it is your tern to ask an obscurte trivial question... ;)
When did the first Fender-Rhodes Electric "Suitcase" piano come out, and for a bonus question, how many keys did it have?
(I used to have one)
Fair warning, I was (as a sideline) the Stage & Equipment manager for a band for over 15 years. Still do a bit of stage lighting....
IIRC, it was 1979 or every early 1980 [I think the former], Ant I believe that it had 73 keys which were slightly down shifted from the range of a normal 88 key piano....
You guys are supposed to be speaking English rather than greek and latin here :confused:. i understand the part when someone asks a question (by the way it was supposed to be a trivial qiestion :))...and once the question is asked...BANG there i am lost :( ...
NO more coming back to this thread ;)
Shreehari,
Ok, here is an easy one just for you.... :cool:
What is the diameter of the dome at the Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium?
Which one? From New Delhi or Bangalore?
Actually I was not aware the New Delhi campus had (a significant) one... All the news in the astronomy mags I read refer to the one in Bangalore....Quote:
Originally Posted by cilu
Well, the Fender-Rhodes only came in the 73 key version. It was sold to Rhodes, and they made the 88 key Suitcae II
Actually I was referring to 88 keys on a "standard" piano. I had totally forgotten about the "Suitecase II" (never saw one in person). Was 1979 the correct year?
I think so. I was helping someone clean out a frends basement a few years ago, and we found a piano and old tube amp. It was great.
I forgot how cool the sounds were. I had to sell it, but I have the voices in my current setup. That thing weighed about 300 pounds.
Reminds me of a high-school pal who sawed his organ in half, and used quick disconnects to put it back together. It fit in his trunk that way!
That must REALLY hurt...Quote:
Originally Posted by dglienna
I had en Ex-Wife want to do that..