DonNews #15 16 июля 2001

Опросы

Form - The results of the survey of readers.

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         FORM
... At this time, you can read about the results of 
questionnaires and in the end, about one a very good zadumochke 
... 



(C) Hacker KAY / NUCLEAR Inc.

So it's time to acquaint people with
survey results are not very active and
spektrumistov. It should be noted that questionnaires
it's not a lot - 20 pieces - and in
First of all they filled spektrumisty,
in close contact with the PC platform and
ehokonferentsiey fido7.zx.spectrum.

So, what are our dear colleagues:

1. Paul, how it was possible to understand
a name and an alias, absolutely male

2. Age.
Predominantly - from 18 to 22 years (60%).

            In second place -25 years (20%).
Foreseeable age contingent

                        - 16 to 37 years.

3. Education: Bachelor's degree - 30%

                incomplete higher education - 25%

                secondary special - 20%

                average - 10%

4. Vocation: user - 40%

               gamer - 30%

               coder - 20%

               musician - 20%

               Hacker - 17%

               Programmer - 17%

               zhelezyachnik - 10%

               sneaky emulyatorschik - 10%

               Artist - 8%

5. Working Platform: ZX - 90%

                       PC - 90%

                       MSX - 10%
10% work only on a real Spectrum,
10% - only in emulators.

6. Iron: Pentagon - 63%

             Scorpion - 17%

             Profi - 10%


             128K - 50%

             256K - 17%

                  (Of them 100% - Scorpion)

             512K - 5%

                  (Marginal rate)

            1024K - 25%

                      (50% - Profi)

30% have 2 drive
40% indicated the presence of computer music. CPU
30% - the presence of the turbo mode (frequency in the Z80
It varies from 6 to 7,5 MHz),
17% have cash, mostly - 32K,
17% - Covox,
25% - Kempston Mouse,
17% - screen 512x192,
 7% - General Sound.

Modems:
25% of all have to fill out
Hayes-modem (usually 14400);
10% - XTR-up modems. Others Modems
(Eg, vicomm) met in the questionnaire only
once, therefore, have little meaning for the statistics.

All others not listed above, the device
were mentioned in the questionnaire only once (HD,
ProfPZU, programmer, Soundrive, MadROM,
XT-Keyboard) were either not mentioned at all.

7. Experience on the Spectrum: 5-6 years - 15%

                        7-8 years - 45%

                         12 years - 10%

8. Rating emulators on the PC:

+---+---------------+-----------+
! 1! Spectrum 3.05! R80 0.30!
+---+---------------+-------+---+--------+
| 2 | UKV Spectrum Debugger | Z80Stealth |
+---+------+--------+-------+------------+
| 3 | X128 |
+---+------+-----+----------+----------+
| 4 | Nuclear ZX | Z80 v4.0 | Warajevo |
+---+------+-----+----------+----------+

"That's what it is ..." ;)

In conclusion, I thank all who sent
questionnaire!
Special thanks - Vadim Chumachenko
for assistance in assembling information.

  On the latter point (plans for
near future), which added to the
questionnaire, Vadim - it quite a bit
meaningful information. From it clearly
It follows that, if not simple
human laziness - would have been our Spectrum
most prosperous living platform. ;)