Can you name this vintage tech?

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Think you know old tech?

Nowadays, bleeding-edge tech tends to be sleek and small and easy on the eyes. It wasn't always.
See how well you can do in this ultimate vintage tech quiz.
Let's start with this porcupine-y thing. Know what it is?

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: TilTuli via YouTube

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
It's a circa-1951 UNIVAC I mercury memory tank ...

... by Remington Rand, on display at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: ZUMA Press/Corbis

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is a detail from ...

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
The original Fallout game (1997)

That's original hero Natalia in the vault suit. She's facing off against a radscorpion.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: Bethesda

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is a part of ...

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
IBM's System/360

The computer system debuted more than a half-century ago.
Previous photo by: IBM

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: ZDNet via Wikipedia

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is ...

Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, England, UK --- Buckinghamshire,Bletchley,Bletchley Park,German Enigma Machine --- Image by © Steven Vidler/Corbis

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: Steven Vidler/Corbis

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
The WWII Enigma code machine

The German device stumped Allies for years ... until Alan Turing and his Bletchley Park team famously helped to cracked it.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: ZDNet

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
Name both the storage media and the hardware ...

Here's a close-up of a floppy disk jutting out of an Apple II computer, which was available between 1977 and 1981.
Right now the All About Apple Museum has no official relationship with Apple. That was not the case in the past. In 2005 the company sent a letter to the association running the museum and eventually invited a few of its representatives to Cupertino.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: ZDNet

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
An Apple II and Disk II with a 5.25-inch disk

The Apple II computer was available between 1977 and 1981.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is ...

Before there was PlayStation, before XBOX, there was the NES. Sure, there were video game systems that came before it, such as the Atari 2600, Intellivision and Colecovision, but none of those really could produce arcade quality graphics and gameplay at home. This was the console that launched the Super Mario empire.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: ZDNet

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
The Nintendo NES game system

This was the console that launched the Super Mario empire ... and super-geeky messenger bags such as this one.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This happy little face could be found in ...

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
Rogue

This dungeon-crawling home computer game (circa 1980) used letters and keyboard symbols to depict walls, passages, monsters and treasure.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is ...

Hint: It's one of the first Windows-powered smartphones ever released.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: ZDNet

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
The SPV Orange e100 ...

... and here's its cousin, the E200.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is ...

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
IBM Naval Ordnance Research Calculator

Also known as NORC, this one-of-a-kind, first-generation vacuum tube computer went live in December 1954 and was likely the most powerful computer at the time.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: IBM

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is ...

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: Steve Benway via YouTube

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
A Sinclair ZX81

Debuted in 1981, this little computer was designed to be inexpensive. It sold for the 2015 equivalent of about $200. Check out Steve Benway's video for more on this small wonder.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: ZDNet

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
Bonus if you can name both the game and the hardware ...

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: Steve Benway via YouTube

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
Crazy Kong on a Sinclair Timex 1000

Steve Benway demonstrated the gameplay in a 2011 YouTube video. The Sinclair 1000 is a modified version of the ZX81.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: Steve Benway via YouTube

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is ...

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
A Nokia 9000 communicator

If you've never seen this 1996 model, one of the earliest of the smartphones, you're missing out on a wonderfully wacky piece of vintage tech. Check it out in this video.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: MarcCEcases Technologica via YouTube

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is a detail from ...

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
Apple's eWorld

Apple's answer to an AOL-like Internet portal service was available between June 1994 and March 1996.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: Apple

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is ...

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
A punch card! And here's the IBM 029 Key Punch system

It debuted in 1954.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: IBM

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is ....

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: ZDNet

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
The WS2000 modem

This 80s-era modem, a favorite of early hackers, is now on display in Britain's National Museum of Computing.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: Miracle Technology

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is ...

Want to see a working model? Sure you do.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: ZDNet

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
A Tandy 1400 laptop

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: Tandy/Radio Shack

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is ...

The first PDA, the reason why this

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: Apple

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
The Apple Newton

An early entry in the PDA category, this cute little personal organizer debuted in 1993, but Steve Jobs killed the platform about five years later.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: ZDNet

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is ...

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
The Colonel's Bequest

The 1989 graphic-adventure game starred 1920s-era sleuth Laura Bow.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: Sierra On-Line

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is ...

The eMate 300 running the Newton operating system isn't one of the most successful Apple products: designed for the education market, it didn't last long. The item, the curators said, was donated to the museum by a collector who obtained it after a tough bargaining session with a Texan collector.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: ZDNet

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
Apple eMate running a Newton OS

Designed for the education market, this PDA didn't last long after its 1997 debut.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is ...

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: ZDNet

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
Tandy TRS-80 model 100

Released in 1983, this is one of the world's first truly portable computers. Want to see a teardown? Sure you do.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: ZDNet

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is ...

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: Cyan

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
Riven

The 1997 game was the follow-up to the hit title Myst.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is ...

While home video was introduced in the form of VHS and Sony BetaMax years earlier, if you really wanted to enjoy the highest fidelity in home entertainment, you had to go LaserDisc, which was introduced by Pioneer Corporation in 1979. LaserDisc never caught on en masse due to the fact the players and the titles were expensive, but if you wanted the best sound and best video quality, nothing would beat it until DVD arrived 10 years later, in 1995.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: ZDNet

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
A LaserDisc

Introduced by Pioneer Corporation in 1979, this storage media enjoyed a lot of hype before VCRs eventually won.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: ZDNet

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is ...

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: U.S. Army

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
The ENIAC

The Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC) was built between 1943 and 1945. It was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and it stretched 150 feet wide.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: U.S. Army

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
This is ...

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Caption by: Leslie Gornstein
Scorched Earth

Designed in Borland C++, this turn-based artillery-combat game debuted in 1991.

Published: March 25, 2016 -- 09:09 GMT (02:09 PDT)
Photo by: Wendell Hicken

Caption by: Leslie Gornstein