"When Brains Collide" was a fund-raising party for Boston's Computer Museum that took place in May. The highlight of the evening was a computer industry trivia contest. g·m marketing communications created the trivia questions. See how many you can answer. There will be a fresh set of questions next month.

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QUESTIONS:
  1. All the on-line junkies, net surfers, and info maniacs owe a big "Thank You!" to Golden United Life Insurance Company. How come?
  2. There really wasn't much that was off-color about the "Naked Mini". But who made it, and why did it get that name?
  3. What ever happened to the Coronado Corporation?
  4. Who was Max Palevsky?
  5. One of the early woman entrepreneurs in the computer industry started a pioneering word processing company in 1969. Who was she and what was her company called?
  6. The legendary Grace Hopper is best known as a Navy officer. But she also taught math at two colleges and worked at a major computer company. Name one of the colleges and the computer company.
  7. One of the most spectacular flame-outs of the early computer industry was the company that introduced the "Everything" box. What was the company, and what did the Everything box do?
  8. This is a trick question. What company built the first home of The Computer Museum?
  9. It's a chip technology that operates at near absolute zero and uses SQUIDS to detect electromagnetic changes. What is it?
  10. What ever happened to the company called Satellite Software International?

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