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Solve the clues to fill in the grid! Type in the answers to the clues on the right side of the Hypercross puzzle below. Clicking a thumbnail image will enlarge it. You can Tab through the clues while the image is enlarged. You can also click on the first space of a word in the grid to view the clue for that word. If two words begin in the first cell, click the cell again to view the downward word. Be sure to check your spelling! Click on the "Check your Answers" button when you think you’ve got them all.
37 Comments
CWarrior
Posted on Sat Feb 09, 2008 03:06 PM |
To all: I have 'shopped the manufacturer names out of some pictures, but left logos.
ps -- As a side game, who's owned the most of these particular systems? Don't count different systems by a represented company (so there's no love for Apple ][, C-64, etc). I have owned six.
Have fun!
rmcelroy
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 07:17 PM |
Sorry, not a computer nerd. I can't identify 99% of these.
Vermont_Bob
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 07:21 PM |
bleah - too much searching involved in this one . . .
defrancesco1
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 07:31 PM |
all but 2 - struggling with the model... computers
DoomDahDoomDoom
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 07:32 PM |
You are a freaking genius!!, you solved this puzzle.
You solved this puzzle in 0 seconds and were the 1st Tanga member to solve it. You earned 120 points for solving this.
My first first! Happy Valentine's Day to me! (wait, is it sad that I'm spending Valentine's day doing Tanga puzzles??)
BigSlick
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 07:33 PM |
[2] That's OK; I *am* a computer geek (not nerd :-) and I don't know half of 'em. Also, doesn't help that the site given as a reference has tons of matches for Model 1 and Model 10. Got the rest though.
Hope2002
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 07:34 PM |
Model 10 is eluding me.
heatherlouwho
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 07:35 PM |
The site is all jammed.
rmcelroy
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 07:37 PM |
[6] Sorry. "Geek". I stand corrected.
pacman5
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 07:39 PM |
First top 100
You solved this puzzle in 0 seconds and were the 17th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 104 points for solving this.
BigSlick
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 07:39 PM |
[9] No prob! :-)
BigSlick
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 07:39 PM |
[10] Any salt on the Model 1 and Model 10?
Hope2002
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 07:40 PM |
Any tg on where to look for the 10? I keep getting the same thing and it isn't right.
stufuller
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 07:42 PM |
You solved this puzzle in 0 seconds and were the 35th Tanga member to solve it.
dyllan
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 07:46 PM |
Okay, I was about to complain about this being too easy and mindless. A simple google search of the site (site:sitename) and appending info from each image brings up every answer on the first page of results for that answer.
Okay, you do have to leave out the word model sometimes.
I prefer to have to think, not just type, read and wait for pages to load.
But hey, it was an easy (if time consuming) 79 points.
heatherlouwho
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 07:52 PM |
Model 1 and Model 100 are still vexing me.
JohnChod
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 07:52 PM |
I knew about two-thirds of these right off the bat as I've always liked reading the vintage computer websites.
These weren't too tough to find. There's a big clue right in the pictures.
stevegamer
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 07:59 PM |
I enjoyed this. Only 1 company I'd never heard of, and identified over half of them from pics alone. Then letters started to fall into place, and searching was needed for only a few.
gst
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 07:59 PM |
I'm no vintage tech buff, but I found this pretty fun.
AossHat
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 08:04 PM |
The Sorceror II should be Sorcerer II.
matador
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 08:06 PM |
http://www.old-computers.com for the win!
entropy
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 08:11 PM |
Man - I got a little Paranoid looking for the Model 1...
Hope2002
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 08:23 PM |
Even when I got the site working, putting in the info on the pics didn't always bring up the answer, and even if it did, that wouldn't have made it a more enjoyable puzzle. A hunt puzzle is a bit tedious, but a hunt puzzle with a site that doesn't want to handle the influx and doesn't always produce the right answer is even worse.
Crockerdile
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 08:24 PM |
I'm thinking the old-computers.com site actually uses one of those old computers
CWarrior
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 08:28 PM |
I know this isn't your normal cup'o'tea HC. I was just browsing their site and had a blast reliving some old times. If you're a retro PC geek, I hope you enjoy.
Salt for [12] and [16]: Both the 1 and 10 are "portable" machines. The Model 1 had a screen about 5' wide. The Model 10 is about five years newer. Both ran CP/M at 4 MHz and had 64K of RAM.
If there's any love for this kind of puzzle, I thought of doing one for old arcade games and another for old home consoles.
heatherlouwho
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 08:36 PM |
[25] Thanks, dfmurphy! That got me to 116th! WHEW!
cyncat
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 08:42 PM |
[24] LOL
AveOscuro
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 08:45 PM |
Woosh... that's the sound of all this computer stuff flying right over my head. Click... that's the sound of me closing this window without even trying to solve this puzzle 8(
renfurdson
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 09:26 PM |
hey if anyone's still here we're trying to test a new game.
go to
http://butthead.tanga.com:7010/picathon
if you want to try it
CWarrior
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 09:49 PM |
[29] I tried to check it out, but it asks me to login and my user/pass aren't working.
bcgrote
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:05 PM |
Aahhh, memories! I've used a majority of these, and my hubby has used (and still has!!!) the rest.
Internet... I remember when all this was fields....
fachanlahd
Posted on Fri Feb 15, 2008 05:11 AM |
So I've only owned one of these. The Texas Instrument one and it had a whopping 2K RAM and for another $100 bucks you could buy a cartridge that plugged into it to expand the memory to 4K.
But I have used about four others through both friends and school in my lifetime.
mutilatedlips
Posted on Fri Feb 15, 2008 06:00 AM |
[22] great salt - thanks
leadfoot
Posted on Fri Feb 15, 2008 07:14 AM |
no amiga? - I still have my amiga
[29]
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at butthead.tanga.com:7010.
and [25] please no...
QurqirishDragon
Posted on Fri Feb 15, 2008 07:36 AM |
[29] a cute game, but I don't think I'll play it much unless I am very bored. (I'd rather work through the archive of puzzles from before I joined- I'm going from the oldest ones forward, and my next one is the infamous "butter" one, if the thumbnail is what I think it is ....)
[34] I run firefox and it had no problem.
WhiteKnight85
Posted on Fri Feb 15, 2008 01:08 PM |
I loved my PET 2001....
JoseJX
Posted on Fri Feb 15, 2008 02:29 PM |
I still miss my TI/99 4a, thanks for the puzzle! :)
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