Though I'm not American (and some of these items are typically North
American), I scored 18.

One could add :

34 - HP3000s with a 16-bit bank of rocker switches on the front panel
35 - MPE v.u.f.s beginning wih A.
36 - Breakfast at HP Sales Offices with croissants
37 - An HP share split every 18 months
38 - HP NOT being in the Fortune 500
39 - HP being an instrument company
40 - HP NOT being a publicly traded company
41 - MPE releases with names ("Athena", "Bruno", "Ciper", "Impact" ...)
42 - Flying from the States to Europe and vice-versa in a jet-propelled
Super Constellation with a stopover in the Azores islands
43 - Ships carrying more passengers than airplanes to and from America
44 - Elvis being alive
45 - Football field-size computer rooms with a kitchen fridge-size HP3000 in
the middle
46 - HP discs (note the C, no K yet !!!) being able to handle sector
atomicity and write sequentiality
47 - HP considering the opening of a sales office in Europe
48 - The biggest disk being a 13" 5-mb single-platter mirrored onto an
identical removable one
49 - An 800-BPI backup tape being quite an achievement
50 - HP considering expanding into non-impact printers

Christian Lheureux
Responsable du Departement Systemes et Reseaux / Head of Systems and
Networks Department
APPIC R.H.
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]De la
> part de fred White
> Envoye : jeudi 16 janvier 2003 18:57
> A : [log in to unmask]
> Objet : [HP3000-L] Fwd: OT: Fun Quiz
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> >  I called this "fun quiz" since I know that a lot of
> >  you won't "remember."
> >
> >  DO YOU REMEMBER?
> >
> >  A friend of mine was cleaning out his
> >  grandmother's house after she passed
> >  away and he showed me an old Royal Crown Cola
> >  bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch
> > of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but
> >  he had no idea. He thought they had tried to
> >  make it a salt shaker or something.
> >  I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end
> >  of the ironing board to "sprinkle" clothes with
> > because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am
> >  old. How many do you remember??
> >
> > Older Than Dirt Quiz - Count all the ones
> >  that you remember-not the ones you were told about!
> >
> >  Ratings at the bottom.
> >
> >  1. Blackjack chewing gum
> >  2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
> >  3. Candy cigarettes
> >  4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
> >  5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
> >  6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with
> >  cardboard stoppers
> >  7. Party lines
> >  8. Newsreels before the movie
> >  9. P.F. Flyers
> >  10. Butch wax
> >  11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix
> >  (Olive - 6933)
> >  12. Peashooters
> >  13. Howdy Doody
> >  14. 45 RPM records
> >  15. S&H Green Stamps
> >  16. Hi-fi's
> >  17. Metal ice trays with lever
> >  18. Mimeograph paper
> >  19. Blue flashbulb
> >  20. Packards
> >  21. Roller skate keys
> >  22. Cork popguns
> >  23. Drive-ins
> >  24. Studebakers
> >  25. Wash tub wringers
> >  26. Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
> >  27. Ignition switches on the dashboard.
> >  28. Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
> >  29. Real ice boxes.
> >  30. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
> >  31. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
> >  32. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
> >  33. Going to the Store to test your television tubes.
> >
> >  If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young.
> >  If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older.
> >  If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age.
> >  If you remembered 16-25 = You're ready for the old
> > folks home.
> >  If you remembered 26-33 = You are older than dirt!
>
> I'm "older than dirt". Oh well .... FW
>
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