-------------Commodore Trivia Edition #22 Questions Preface-------------- You think you know a lot about Commodore computers, eh? Well, match your wits against these questions, prepared by Jim Brain. The questions are gleaned from numerous Commodore sources and other people. If you score the highest you will win this month's prize: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Tiberio has generously offered to present the winner each month with a copy of the Amiga/Toaster Reference Manual to the winner. "The Amiga/Toaster Reference Manual v2.221 ($34.95) contains over 1000 pages of information and 80 pictures relating to the Amiga computer. This includes the Workbench, AmigaDOS, Lightwave, Art Department Professional, and more.An 800 word dictionary is included, along with over 500 FAQ questions and various charts and tablessuch as Hayes commands, light refraction, color rgb values, and more. This software is available from many local dealers and mail order companies. Although the same price as a typical book about the Amiga, most books are limited in size to only 200 pages and very specific topics." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are the rules and some general information: Please MAIL responses to Jim Brain. Answers posted on public forums will be disqualified. Please MAIL the responses only, prefaced with corresponding question numbers. Please make sure your name appears in the mail somewhere. Some systems only give me your address. If you want to remain anonymous, state this inside your message. Each edition edition of trivia closes for entries at 11:59 a.m. on the 12th day of the month after the questions were first posted. Each new edition of trivia is posted around the time the previous edition closes. It is always posted on a weekday. If the 12th falls on a weekend, the trivia will be posted the following week, excluding holidays. The trivia questions will be reposted at the beginning of each month. Each edition will have 16 questions, numbered in HEX. Scores are determined by counting the number of questions answered correctly. No partial credit is given. If a question has multiple parts, each part must be correct. In the case of a tie in which only one prize is available, a random number will be picked, from 0-100. The tie-holders will submit guesses. the closest guess without going over the number will win. (If anyone has a better solution not dependant on time factors, feel free to enlighten me.) I, Jim Brain, have researched the following question to the best of my ability. However, as I am human, mistakes do occur. I encourage others to double check my work, and point out errors. That is the primary purpose of this trivia: To seek out the truths about the Commodore line of computer systems. Besides, you get what you pay for. The prize for each edition is donated. If you wish to donate an item for the trivia, please mail me. This edition of trivia question 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. I prefer that all responses be sent via Internet electronic mail to: brain@mail.msen.com. However, I can accept incoming FIDO NetMail, and snail mail. Please mail any new questions for upcoming trivia (with answers) to my address. I encourage people to ask for clarifications if needed. 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 #22 Questions (BEGIN)-------------- Q $150) How nmany keys are on a standard Commodore B-128 keyboard? Q $151) How many revisions of the 1541 printed circuit board are known to exist? Q $152) The Commodore 6510 CPU has two internal I/O registers. Where in the Commodore 64 are these two registers located at? Q $153) The Commodore 64 cotains 64kB of memory. How many bytes is in 64kB? Q $154) What is the name of the Commodore employee responsible for much of the Commodore 128 and 65 software development, among other accomplishments? (hint: initials are FB) Q $155) In question $13F, we found out the message that was displayed after typing SAVE "",2. Why did Commodore change that message on the VIC-20? Q $156) What was the number of Commodore 64 machines sold, within 4 million? Q $157) What was the number of Commodore 128 machines sold, within 1 million? Q $158) In 1985, Commodore previewed the Commodore LCD Laptop computer at the January CES show. How many software packages were to be built-in? Q $159) In the Commodore LCD unit, what were the text screen dimensions? Q $15A) What is the version number of the only known "bug-free" VIC-II IC? Q $15B) Machine language programmer typically use the .X register to index into small arrays. What is the largest byte-array size that can be handled in this way? Q $15C) In the mid-1980's, Commodore started manufacturing IBM clone PCs. One of the models had a name which was a type of horse. Name the term. Q $15D) What is the model number of the first mouse introduced for the Commodore 64? Q $15E) What was the problem with the mouse in question $15D? Q $15F) If you hold down the cursor key on the CBM 4000 series machine and it does not repeat, what fact about the machine do you now know? (other than the key doesn't repeat) The information in this between the lines marked by (BEGIN) and (END) is copyright 1995 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 Some are easy, some are hard, try your hand at: -------------Commodore Trivia Edition #22 Questions (END)---------------