Did I pass the audition? I didn't even study.
You forgot to answer question 6, but that's okay, it was extra credit. Actually, the bonus question should have been,"Why does bplus use a picture of his mom for his avatar? " Oh well, nice bio. We have a lot of older coders here, many from the QBasic period, which I believe followed the Jurassic one.
The IBM mainframe work took me back. I had a good friend, Mac, who contrary to his name, worked for IBM. He owned the QBasic Forum, on Network54, (now defunct, oh, the hosting company, the forum still lives.) I have another friend from that forum, TheBOB, who is a retired graphics artist. As for me, I stick to SCREEN 0, literally. I'm 20 pixels down and 7 to the right as we speak. I'm mean really, it's the only screen resolution any real programmer would ever need. Perfect for making business apps, which is what I mostly do; although interestingly enough, I learned BASIC by programming games. I coded Wheel of Fortune, Password, Monopoly, and Card Sharps while in college. My first computers were a 4K T.I. 99-4a , followed by 16K Atari. I got a real PC in 1990 and switched to QBasic, to make my own office software.
Well besides comedy, we appear to be the same when it comes to games and gaming. While I wouldn't mind programming one again, I'd probably never play it. Other than that, I like long walks on the beach... Well, let's not go there.
Pete