Answers to the true believers quiz

1. Cullinet Software, founded by John Cullinane. 3. American Research & Development Corp., or ARD. The founder was Brigadier General Georges Doriot.

4. "Computer." Olsen later protested to a magazine interviewer that he'd been misquoted: "What I said, I said very carefully and knew exactly what I was saying because I had prepared it. I said, `I don't think we want our personal lives run by computer.' If you steal something from the refrigerator at midnight, you don't want it entered into the computer."

7. Ray Tomlinson. Tomlinson still works for BBN Technologies in Cambridge, now a division of Verizon.

9. The Harvard Mark II, or more exactly, the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator.

10. The Bluetooth short-range wireless protocol was named for King Harald Blatand (which translates to "Bluetooth"), a 10th-century Viking ruler who united Denmark and Norway.

11. Thinking Machines.

13. The Apple II. Today, Bricklin and Frankston maintain a weblog, along with David Reed, another early member of the VisiCalc team, at www.satn.org.

14. Lotus Development Corp.

19. Data General.

Scoring:

50 or higher: You're a pillar of the Boston tech community. Or you're fibbing.

36-49: Industry graybeard. People would pay serious money for access to your contacts.

20-35: Addicted to disruptive technology.

10-19: Industry lifer.

5-9: Just waiting for this latest batch of stock options to vest -- and praying they'll be worth something someday.

0-4: A remora on the fast-moving shark that is the tech sector.