THE UNISEX, OMNISEXUAL
P U R I T Y T E S T
Text Version
Version 5.0 (600)
Latest Release
8-Dec-1990
Version 1 (100) Created at MIT's Baker House. Two parallel versions; one for male, and one for female. Not much is known about this version. It was ported to CMU by ps in 1982.
Version 2 (247) Spring 1983 - CMU/jb, pd, kr, ps, ts, mt, et al. Expanded to 247 questions. This marked the beginning of the unisex versions. The story goes that they intended it to be 250 questions, but got tired that night and said "we'll think of three more tomorrow", and tomorrow never got there.
Version 3.3C.1 (400) on 05-Dec-1984 First formal release general of this test, version 3.xx. All former versions were short-lived and tended to be bug-ridden. Does not discriminate against gays or bi's. Good correspondence of scores (especially in the higher score ranges) between this version and version 2. Added Genesis/History section.
Version 3.4 (400) on 29-Jan-1985 Internal version; never released. Source code accidentally destroyed, much to the consternation of one of the authors. Cleaned up many bugs. Added sections: Disclaimer of Liability, Instructions for Use, Scoring, and Warranty Information.
Version 3.5 (400) on 10-Apr-1985 Rebuilt from the 3.3C.1 source and the 3.4 (only surviving copy) Xerox X9700 laser printer hardcopy. Cleaned up same bugs in 3.4; wiped out a duplicate question. Added in verbose history section.
Version 3.5A (400) on 13-Apr-1985: CMU/da, fa, tc, no, dt, sv, rz, et al Found that we had 431 questions instead of 400.
Version 3.5B (400) on 18-Mar-1986: Yale (Pierson College)/ as Intermediate release, with footnotes integrated into main body of text and some grammatical errors cleaned up. Begun in Fall, 1985; finished in April for the benefit of a friend at MIT (where it all began), who hadn't seen any versions except the antique Version 1.
Version 3.5C (400) on 17-Jan-1988: Yale (Pierson College)/mmd (CLARINET@YALEVM) Grammatical errors corrected. Introduction and history cleaned up.
Version 4.0 (500) on 23-April-1988: Yale (Silliman College)/dfc, ad, dcg, mlm, and Dartmouth (Alpha Theta)/alb. Original 400-question version expanded to 500 questions.
Version 5.0 (600) on 9-December-1990: SUNY Potsdam (madstoP)/with help from Clarkson University and Prometheus(Theta Omega Phi). Added 100 new questions and introduced computer run version.
Version 1.0 (500) 2200+ Lines of Source Code on 27-Mar-1989 Idea for computerized version conceived (No, not literally conceived) at Potsdam College, Upstate New York - The REAL upstate, thirty miles from the Canadian Border - on 3-Mar-1989.
Version 1.5 (500) 2200+ Lines of Source Code on 8-May-1989 Initial release, previous version had bugs in Purity computation. Fixed bugs, added date checker and other neat stuff.
Version 2.0 (500) 500 Lines of Source Code on 27-June-1990 Reduced size of code by implementing data file reading, removed date checker due to problems therein, added ability to print copy of Purity Test to printer. Date Of Release - 27-June-1990.
Version 3.0 (600) 515 Lines of Source Code on 8-December-1990 Updated program to include 100 new questions. Again at SUNY Potsdam...Nowheresville NY.
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