Here are the results in the "SurvPC Survey -99"
All typos, misscalculations are my fault (or perhaps my calculator if the
batteries have run low <G>). I meant to look it over once again - but I
have not had the time.
I've tried to keep the size down while still maintain an easy way to read
the information (since this is text that isn't all that easy - perhaps a
HTML version as well?). Please if you reply to it (that was my idea -
you'll see on what), make sure you cut out the non-esential parts.
Thanks to all that sent in answers. I hope I didn't manage to loose any
answer anywhere - if so then it was not anything I had planed.
(x,y = x.y for those who use that type)
Member Info
Members 319 (see Note #1)
Answers 43 (13,48% of the readers)
Answers after the "second round" was sent 14 (32,56% of the total number
of answers)
Male 40 (93,02%)
Female 2 ( 4,65%)
Other/Unknown 1 ( 2,32%) (this one was meant as a joke - not an actuall
option)
Age
Male
(One answer (2,32%) was "2x" so that's not included here except in the
Median. Also one person forgot his age and needed a reply from me to get it
right <VBG>).
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Medium 37,9
Median 36
These couldn't be counted because of the answers:
Female
"between 30 and 40"
23
Other/Unknown
"mid thirties"
Perhaps there should be "age classes" (10-19, 20-29 etc.) next time, or
perhaps everyone will answer "correctly" next time?
Country/Continent
(One person (2,33%) didn't answer this question, also see Note #2)
Continent:
North America 23 (54,76%)
Europe 10 (23,81%)
Asia 5 (11,90%)
Oceania 2 ( 4,76%)
South America 2
Country:
USA 20 (47,62%)
Canada 4 ( 9,52%)
Sweden 3 ( 7,14%)
Australia 2 ( 4,76%)
Germany 2
Indonesia 2
Argentina 1 ( 2,38%)
Belgium 1
Brazil 1
Denmark 1
England 1
Holland 1
Israel 1
Pakistan 1
Portugal 1
Native (first) language:
English 28 (65,12%)
German 3 ( 6,98%)
Swedish 3
Indonesian language 2 ( 4,65%)
Danish 1 ( 2,33%)
Dutch 1
French 1
Hebrew 1
Portuguese 1
Spanish 1
Urdu 1
Programming:
Five people (11,63%) don't program, those who do program answered:
Basic 28 (73,68%)
Batch 26 (68,42%)
HTML 25 (65,79%)
Assembler 20 (52,63%)
Pascal 17 (44,74%)
C 14 (36,84%)
C++ 10 (26,32%)
Cobol 10
Fortran 9 (23,68%)
JavaScript 7 (18,42%)
Java 5 (13,16%)
Delphi 5
Perl 5
Visual Basic 5
Visual C++ 4 (10,53%)
REXX 3 ( 7,89%)
Visual JavaScript 1 ( 2,63%)
Noone programmed "Visual Java" and/or "Visual J++"
In the "Other" cathegory:
Unlisted 5
Modula-2 2 ( 5,26%)
4GL/SQL 1 (see Note #3)
Databas/Foxbase 1
dbXl 1
Euphoria 1
Fox Pro 1
FPL 1
Modula2/Dataflex 1
Mumps 1
Non-computer 1 (see Note #3)
OPL 1
Paradox 1
Prolog 1
RPG 1
Smalltalk 1
Tcl/Tk 1
xBase 1
XML 1
The list:
(One didn't answer, also see Note #4)
Before "a" 1 ( 2,38%)
a From the first week (29 sep. - 5 oct. 1998) 15 (35,71%)
b From the first months 5 (11,90%)
c From the first half year (sep. 1998 - feb 1999) 5
d Last half year 16 (38,10%)
Number of incorrect answers: 1
Have mailed to the list:
Yes 39 (90,70%)
No 4 ( 9,30%)
Incorrect Yes 2 ( 5,00% of Yes answers)
Incorrect No 1 (33,33% of No answers)
Total incorrect responses 3 ( 6,98%)
(After checking name and/or e-mail against the mails I have (all but the
first and my own) I then changed the Yes/No answers to be correct.)
Other lists:
6 people (13,95%) weren't subscribed to any other list. Those who were
subscribed was divided like this:
Other 26 (70,27%)
Arachne 17 (45,95%)
NetTamer 14 (37,84%)
Open/DR/Lineo-DOS 10 (27,03%)
GEM 4 (10,81%)
Year of first computer:
(These are not in except with the Median, "80 + or - 2-3" and "somewhere
80-85")
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Medium 87,49
Median 87
Year of first getting on the "Net":
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Medium 95,21
Median 95
Length to wait from getting a computer to getting access to the "Net":
(Two was left out from Medium (12-17 and 14-20). Also see note #5)
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Medium 7,53
Median 8
Web-Browser:
Five people (11,63%) didn't answer in this one (came originally in a
seperate mail) those who did respond used:
Netscape 23 (60,53%)
Lynx 22 (57,89%)
Arachne 21 (55,26%)
Internet Explorer 15 (39,47%)
NetTamer 15
Opera 13 (34,21%)
BobCat 10 (26,32%)
Other(s) 9 (23,68%)
DR-WebSpider/EmBrowser 3 ( 7,89%)
Type of InterNet access:
33600 22 (51,16%)
"56000" 18 (41,86%)
14400 - 28800 17 (39,53%)
LAN 7 (16,28%)
bellow 14400 modem 5 (11,63%)
"Cable Modem" 4 ( 9,30%)
ISDN (single line = 64K) 3 ( 6,98%)
ISDN (dual line = 128K) 1 ( 2,33%)
Unknown 1
xDSL 1
(Side note to next survey, 14400 and 28800 should probably be divided)
Place of InterNet access:
(One person (2,33%) didn't answer this one. A few answered it in the
earlier question, also see Note #6)
Home 40 (95,24%)
Work 18 (42,86%)
BBS 2 ( 4,76%)
Library/Cybercaf� 2
ISP 1 ( 2,38%)
Computers those who responded own:
(One person (2.33%) didn't answer "correctly" and was left out, I can't see
any point in posting any other statistics on this so this is it)
XT 59
AT 30
386 49
486 54
586 10
686 2
AMD K6 4
AMD K6-2 4
AMD K6-3 0
Pentium 28
Pentium MMX 5
Pentium Pro 0
Pentium II 4
Pentium III 1
Other 63
Operating System
(DR-DOS will be used instead of DR/OPEN/Lineo-DOS, PC-DOS will be used
instead of IBM/PC-DOS, OS2 will be used instead of OS/2 to make it easier
to read)
Only one OS
MS-DOS 111
DR-DOS 18
PTS-DOS 4
PC-DOS 27
Linux 9
BeOS 1
FreeBSD 5
OS2 3
Windows NT 2
CP/M 1
Other 20 (includes Amiga, C-64, Mac etc. OS's)
Computers with more than one OS
MS-DOS/DR-DOS/NovellDOS 9
MS-DOS/Linux 4
MS-DOS/Other 3
MS-DOS/Linux/Windows NT 2
MS-DOS/DR-DOS/Linux 2
MS-DOS/DR-DOS 1
MS-DOS/DR-DOS/OS2/Linux 1
MS-DOS/DR-DOS/OS2/Linux/FreeDOS/PC-DOS/BeOS/Windows NT/Other 1
MS-DOS/MS-DOS 1
MS-DOS/MS-DOS/Linux 1
MS-DOS/PC-DOS/Windows NT/Other 1
Linux/OS2 1
NovellDOS/OS2 1
Windows NT/NovellDOS 1
Windows NT/Linux/OS2 1
Graphical User Interface
(Four people (9,30%) don't run any GUI on any computer)
A few of thse might be debatable if they really are GUIs, but I really
can't bother with that now (I have one question left to sumarize and then
it's all finished!
Windows 3.x 52
Windows 4.x 43
DosShell 28
X-Windows 11
WinDOS 3
GEM 3
FreeGem 3
Windows 2.x 2
Deskmate 2
Desktop 2 2
GeoWorks/NewDeal 1
EPOC 1
Fast-Flipp 1
QuickMenu 1
Windows 1.x 1
"Windows 2000" 1
Other 10
DOS Shell (if diffrent from command.com)
(72,09% use the "normal" one)
4DOS 6 (50,00%)
DosShell 1 ( 8,33%)
FastFlipp 1
ReRead 1
DesqView 1
Norton Commander 1
QuickMenu 1
Linux Shell:
Bash 12 (60,00%)
Gnome 2 (10,00%)
Standard Dragon 2
KDE 1 ( 5,00%)
Enlightment 1
Standard Monkey 1
Standard SuSe 1
Will read the FAQ:
(One person (2,33%) didn't answer. All "Probably", "If" and "Maybe" answers
have been changed to "Yes"))
Yes 35 (83,33%)
No 5 (11,90%)
Unknown 2 ( 4,76%)
Will answer RTFM:
(Two people (4,65%) didn't answer)
(Please note - since the ammount of diffrent answers were so high I've
tried to interpret them under the question ("Will you point to the FAQ if
the question is well-covered in it?") since this seems to be what most of
the participants meant when they answered. All "Probably", "If" and "Maybe"
answers have been changed to "Yes". Also see Note #7)
Yes 26 (63,41%)
No 13 (31,71%)
Unknown 2 ( 4,87%)
Was the survey boring:
Five people (11,63%) didn't answer (perhaps they didn't dare? <g>), of
those who did they thought:
No 22 (57,89%)
Somewhat/Wants to do something else 7 (18,42%)
Yes 3 ( 6,25%)
Needs improvment 3 (see Note #8)
Never thought of it/Don't know 3
And now a few more questions... (please respond by private e-mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], and please cut out the other parts).
1. Should there be any survey next year?
y Yes
n No
o more Often (please specify timespan)
g Get someone else to do it (I vote for that, this took quite some time -
or perhaps divide the work or get a database to store things in can help)
2. Would you use a web-based option to answering?
y Yes
n No
3. Shall the survey be called:
0 "SurvPC Survey -00"
2 "SurvPC Survey 2000"
O Other (please specify)
("SurvPC Survey [insert_month] -99" will not be appreciated as a joke!)
Notes:
#1
I took the number at the begining of September. Of course lurkers weren't
counted since that's impossible.
#2
Many in the US also responded with city and state - I've left this out of
the survey since it wasn't an actuall question.
#3
"Non-computer" sounds strange to me - but I never had time to check it up
since I noticed it first when making this mail. 4GL/SQL is rather wage as
well - many of the other listed are of the 4GL type.
#4
I was incredibly wage on what the diffrent answers actually were, a few of
the answers was uncertain and in two cases I had to guess (between a/b and
c/d).
One answer was also incorrect, and the correct one was the one that was
added to the survey after I replied to the person in question.
#5
I simply calculated between first computer and first Internet access. The
-4 value is from one person that had accounts before a computer.
Interestingly enough the ammount is the same after 95 as before - so
Windows95 didn't raise the ammount that much, atleast not of people
accessing the Net that later "ended up" here.
#6
Several of the people on the list work at home, and therefor makes it hard
to state if they can access the Net from home or from work. I have added
these individuals on both of them.
#7
One wouldn't read the FAQ but would point others to it, another would
probably not read it but would also point it out.
#8
The three people who have felt a need to improve the survey will probably
be contacted next year ;)
Only one of them actually told me what would make it better (interactive on
the web).
Now I only have two things to add.
First, no matter that this did take quite some time to do (atleast for me,
with just pen, paper and a calculator) it was very fun to find out more
about the members of the list (no I will not use any information against
you <g>).
Secondly I hope that we can look forward to another great year, it's been a
great time so far, we are one of the last "bastalions" for DOS users still
out here.
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