34/45 and had I spent more time thinking about it maybe I would have gotten a few more than that but no way would I have gotten all of them. Photos would have been nice rather than drawings of them though. And in a couple of cases I would have liked to see more than one side of them. That is wasn’t multiple guess makes it harder.
@ruouttaurmind Yeah I’d agree. That is why photos would have been better. A couple when I saw the answer I know what they look like but in my opinion the drawing doesn’t look much like them so never would have guessed.
I didn’t know you had to press the go button on each field. I thought it would give me my total when I did the last one. What a waste of time. I’m not doing that again.
@f00l In general, I was okay with the challenge of the simplified graphics. But I was so sure that the Bombe was supposed to an abacus, I think I tried it 4 times (“I am spelling ‘abacus’ correctly, you stupid game”)
@djslack@ruouttaurmind Yeah, I stalled out at 31 and I don’t think I would have got another one on my own no matter how long I tried. Some I knew what they were going for, but didn’t know the exact model (e.g. VHS, Motorola Brickphone), but some I had never heard of (Sensorama)
After that, I’m pretty sure I’m too young to know the product / company names, and I refuse on principle to start guessing. (I bet I could get a couple more by guessing all the old computer names I know on all the old computer shapes.)
The quiz does accept near matches. So far it’s seemed fair. Can’t find the button to look at the answers.
@InnocuousFarmer it sometimes accepts near matches, but it frustratingly wouldn’t accept the manufacturer name for the ancient cell phone, you had to know the model.
@djslack Answer key is cool. It’s fun putting faces to names. I should have gotten the black laptop. No clue what that 3D printer / sewing machine shaped thing is, even after seeing the name.
@djslack OH! Nevermind. I’d misread its name in the answer key (imgur being fairly phone-hostile, couldn’t easily enbiggen it to full size, probably a deliberate effort to get you to install the app).
@djslack My guess was some kind of fancy microscope… that arrow made me think of a contact point. In a certain sense, I was vaguely on the right track.
Wow, you guys are pretty smart. I only got 20 before I gave up. There’s quite a few I know but it won’t except the answer. How do we get the answers???
I got 27/45, but I honestly guessed on a few of them.
32/45 so far. Some are really specific.
Made it to 38/45 before looking up the answer key. The remaining ones were definitely obscure.
Currently sitting at 25/45
34/45 and had I spent more time thinking about it maybe I would have gotten a few more than that but no way would I have gotten all of them. Photos would have been nice rather than drawings of them though. And in a couple of cases I would have liked to see more than one side of them. That is wasn’t multiple guess makes it harder.
Those blocky images are way too vague for the very specific answers they are looking for (Busicom for example?)
@ruouttaurmind Yeah I’d agree. That is why photos would have been better. A couple when I saw the answer I know what they look like but in my opinion the drawing doesn’t look much like them so never would have guessed.
21/45 on my first pass. Now it gets tough.
Think I’m going to give up at 26. Getting tedious.
I didn’t know you had to press the go button on each field. I thought it would give me my total when I did the last one. What a waste of time. I’m not doing that again.
Fought my way up to 31 but pretty stumped on the rest.
I got to 30 pretty easily. I had to start “cheating” to make it much further than that. Currently at 35.
I am giving up at 34. I had to look up a couple of names for things that I recognized but couldn’t quite retrieve the names of from my aging RAM…
30 with some help on spelling. A couple more I recognize but apparently not specifically enough. No way to get the answers?
@katbyter
Right, where the hell do we get the answers?
32/45. A few I can’t get what they’re looking for. Like the TI pocket calculator. Do they want the model number? Or is it an HP?
A few I expected but don’t see. Like a Hayes modem or an acoustic coupler.
What terrible graphics. That quiz sux.
And the quiz didn’t work correctly in my browser, which gave me a great excuse not to bother trying each one.
Anyways: sometimes forgetfulness is a blessing.
/giphy I forget
@f00l In general, I was okay with the challenge of the simplified graphics. But I was so sure that the Bombe was supposed to an abacus, I think I tried it 4 times (“I am spelling ‘abacus’ correctly, you stupid game”)
I found this key when you really can’t stand not knowing any more.
@djslack Thank you. After looking over the key I don’t feel so bad about the ones I didn’t know.
@djslack that isn’t loading for me.
@craigthom @djslack try this:
https://m.imgur.com/irKuxvh
@djslack @ruouttaurmind Yeah, I stalled out at 31 and I don’t think I would have got another one on my own no matter how long I tried. Some I knew what they were going for, but didn’t know the exact model (e.g. VHS, Motorola Brickphone), but some I had never heard of (Sensorama)
Well that was fun. And now I feel stupid. 31/45 until I peeked.
That was annoying. I got twelve of the first thirteen, fifteen of eighteen, and then it went to hell.
I couldn’t figure out what it wanted for several. I got 26 before I gave up.
The quiz does accept near matches. So far it’s seemed fair. Can’t find the button to look at the answers.
Edit: and all the failures also seem fair.
@InnocuousFarmer it sometimes accepts near matches, but it frustratingly wouldn’t accept the manufacturer name for the ancient cell phone, you had to know the model.
I linked to an answer key I found above.
@djslack Answer key is cool. It’s fun putting faces to names. I should have gotten the black laptop. No clue what that 3D printer / sewing machine shaped thing is, even after seeing the name.
@djslack OH! Nevermind. I’d misread its name in the answer key (imgur being fairly phone-hostile, couldn’t easily enbiggen it to full size, probably a deliberate effort to get you to install the app).
@InnocuousFarmer those were what I thought it was too.
@djslack My guess was some kind of fancy microscope… that arrow made me think of a contact point. In a certain sense, I was vaguely on the right track.
Wow, you guys are pretty smart. I only got 20 before I gave up. There’s quite a few I know but it won’t except the answer. How do we get the answers???
@Star2236
https://m.imgur.com/irKuxvh