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    Random/Trivia Question(s)

    I saw this on an Ad today and I had to ask someone else to find out.

    Who invented Basketball?
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    Re: Random/Trivia Question(s)

    James Naismith, 1891 IIRC...
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    Re: Random/Trivia Question(s)

    .... umm, very quick with the response too. Why did I not know this?! Shame on me....
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    Re: Random/Trivia Question(s)

    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..

    The question... What year was the Teletype INVENTED????
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    Re: Random/Trivia Question(s)

    It know all.

    Quote Originally Posted by Wikipedia
    Teletype was a trademark of the Teletype Corporation of Skokie, Illinois, USA. The predecessor Morkrum Company was founded in 1906 by Charles Krum and Mr. Joy Morton (of Morton Salt). They made their first commercial installation of a printing telegraph with the Postal Telegraph Company in Boston and New York in 1910. It became popular with railroads, and the Associated Press adopted it in 1914 for their wire service. Morkrum merged with their competitor E.E. Kleinschmidt to become Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Corporation shortly before being renamed the Teletype Corporation. The company became part of AT&T in 1930.
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    Re: Random/Trivia Question(s)

    Close.... You missed the mark on a technicallity..

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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).
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    Re: Random/Trivia Question(s)

    Well, if you count the old stock ticker tape machines, then the date is late 1870's
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    Re: Random/Trivia Question(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...
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    Re: Random/Trivia Question(s)

    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)
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    Re: Random/Trivia Question(s)

    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....
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    Re: Random/Trivia Question(s)

    You guys are supposed to be speaking English rather than greek and latin here . 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 ...

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    Re: Random/Trivia Question(s)

    Shreehari,

    Ok, here is an easy one just for you....

    What is the diameter of the dome at the Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium?
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    Re: Random/Trivia Question(s)

    Which one? From New Delhi or Bangalore?
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    Re: Random/Trivia Question(s)

    Quote Originally Posted by cilu
    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....
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    Re: Random/Trivia Question(s)

    Well, the Fender-Rhodes only came in the 73 key version. It was sold to Rhodes, and they made the 88 key Suitcae II
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