From brain@mail.msen.com Tue May 28 15:32:07 EET DST 1996 Article: 53097 of comp.sys.cbm Path: news.cs.tut.fi!news3.funet.fi!news.funet.fi!news.eunet.fi!EU.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!news1.best.com!pravda.aa.msen.com!conch.aa.msen.com!not-for-mail From: brain@mail.msen.com (Jim Brain) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Commodore Trivia #28 Answers Date: 23 May 1996 23:08:18 -0400 Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 157 Sender: brain@msen.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: conch.aa.msen.com X-Newsreader: Yarn 0.90 with YES 0.22 X-URL: http://www.msen.com/~brain/ -------Commodore Trivia Edition #28 Questions and Answers Preface-------- Not to leave you in the dark for too long, here are the trivia answers to the previous edition of Commodore Trivia. I am posting the answers at this time, and will post the scores and winners in a few days. This time frame is set up to allow time for any discussions on the correctness of these answers. By this time, the newest edition of trivia has been posted. I encourage you to enter it. This edition of trivia answers has been posted to the USENET newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm, alt.folklore.computers, and comp.sys.amiga.advocacy. It has also been posted to the FidoNET CBM Echo. Feel free to use these trivia answers in newsletters, magazines, and other publications (please see disclaimer). If you use the trivia, I would appreciate knowing where it has ended up. If you intend to use this information, please wait a few days after the posting date to allow for major errors to be corrected. Please mail any new questions for upcoming trivia (with answers) to my address. This edition and previous editions the trivia can be obtained from my mailserver. To: brain@mail.msen.com Subject: MAILSERV Body: send trivia1 quit This will retrieve the first edition of the trivia. Replace the number with the edition you want. **NEW** Interested persons can now subscribe to the Trivia Mailing List. To add your name to the list, please mail a message: To: brain@mail.msen.com Subject: MAILSERV Body: subscribe trivia Firstname Lastname help quit Each new edition of the trivia will be automatically mailed to you when it is made available on the Internet. I try to post the answers for the questions shortly after the monthly contest has ended. However, I usually wait a few days for any errors I may have made to be worked out before scoring the contest. -------Commodore Trivia Edition #28 Questions and Answers (BEGIN)-------- Q $1B0) What was COMPUTE!'s original sub title? A $1B0) "The Journal for Progressive Computing". Q $1B1) After COMPUTE! was absorbed by General Media, how did the name change? A $1B0) The name, having gained an exclamation point and lost a period many years before, reverted back to the period as the ending punctuation. Q $1B2) What Commodore content magazine was named after a nautical term? A $1B0) "Ahoy!" Q $1B3) What Commodore content magazine was named after a BASIC keyword? A $1B0) "RUN" Q $1B4) What CPU gets control first when a Commodore 128 is booted? A $1B0) The Z80 CPU has control first. Q $1B5) What CPU powered the Commodore C900? A $1B0) The Zilog Z8000, from the company who borught us the popular Z80. Q $1B6) How large is the monitor installed in the SX64? A $1B0) 5" diagonal. Q $1B7) What color scheme does the SX64 boot up into? A $1B0) White screen with cyan border and blue text. Q $1B8) What is printed as the stock SX64 boot up screen? A $1B0) ***** SX-64 BASIC V2.0 ***** 64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE READY. _ Q $1B9) The SX64 has a reset switch behind the door that holds the monitor controls. What is strange about the rest switch? A $1B0) The reset switch only resets the disk drive. Most people assume it resets the entire computer system. Q $1BA) What common port is not included on the SX64? A $1B0) The Cassette Port. Q $1BB) In the mid 1980's, a company called Berkeley Softworks created a graphical user environment for the Commodore 64. What was it called? A $1B0) Graphical Environment Operating System (GEOS). Q $1BC) Berkeley Softworks eventually changed their name to what? A $1B0) GEOWorks. They now develop the GEOS OS for Personal Digital Assistants (PDA). Q $1BD) Most everyone is familiar with MSD disk drives. What does MSD stand for? A $1B0) Micro Systems Development, Inc. Q $1BE) On the NMOS 6502, what two addressing modes have but one opcode each that can operate in that mode? A $1B0) Actually, there is only one such mode, indirect. jmp (xxxx) is the only opcode that can utilize that addressing mode. Q $1BF) How many transfer register opcodes are there on the NMOS 6502? A $1B0) 6 (TAX, TAY, TSX, TXA, TXS, TYA). The information in this between the lines marked by (BEGIN) and (END) is copyright 1996 by Jim Brain. Provided that the information between the (BEGIN) and (END) lines is not changed except to correct typographical errors, the so marked copyrighted information may be reproduced in its entirety on other networks or in other mediums. For more information about using this file, please contact the address shown below. Jim Brain brain@mail.msen.com 602 North Lemen Fenton, MI 48430 (810) 737-7300 x8528 --------Commodore Trivia Edition #28 Questions and Answers (END)--------- -- Jim Brain, Embedded System Designer, Brain Innovations, Inc. (BII)(offline sig) brain@mail.msen.com "Above views DO reflect my employer, since I'm my employer" Dabbling in WWW, Embedded Systems, VR, Old CBM computers, and Good Times! -Me- Jim Brain: BII, VR, and CBM info