[the size quiz]

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1. Cellular phones were created in the...
1800s   1950s   1970s   1990s

2. A microprocessor is an important device in digital devices.
True   False

3. Wilhelm Schikard's computing device was "big."
True   False

4. The transition from analog technology to digital technology has made devices...
Slower   Smaller   More annoying   Transparent

5. Computing devices got smaller when...
Microsoft came out with Windows 95
Punched cards were used
When computers used vacuum tubes
When the microprocessor came out

6. Which is faster...
A UNIVAC system
An Altair 8800
A BMW 750iL
A Gateway Performance 500 using Intel's Pentium III 500MHz chip

7. The first cell phones were the size of a high school literature book.
True   False

8. Tomorrow's cell phones will be able to...
Allow you to talk to anyone in the world from anywhere
Make coffee
Send and receive e-mail
Do nothing new

9. After a while man usually does what to devices?
Leaves them alone
Makes them better
Makes them smaller
None of the above

10. Smaller is better.
True   False




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