Archive for October, 2008

Colorful

Question: What color were the function keys in the Acorn A3010?

  • red
  • green
  • white
  • purple



Answer: green

October 31st, 2008

EBCDIC

Question: What does EBCDIC stand for?

  • Electronic Basic Code for Data Integration Circuitry
  • External Basic Control of Drives in Integrated Circuits
  • Encoded Binary Communications Digital Interface Carrier
  • Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code



Answer: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

October 30th, 2008

8086

Question: On an 8086 processor, addresses are divided into what two parts?

  • Segment and Offset
  • Pointer and Offset
  • Segment and Pointer
  • Base and Increment



Answer: Segment and Offset

October 29th, 2008

I don't remember

Question: The Apple IIe had how much memory built in?

  • 32 K
  • 64 K
  • 128 K
  • 768 K



Answer: 64 K

The Apple IIe came standard with 64k on the motherboard. One of the I/O ports on the unit was a 300 baud tape interface!

October 28th, 2008

NeXT

Question: What was the processor in the original NeXT Cube?

  • Motorola 68030
  • Sun microSPARC
  • Intel 80286
  • AMD 29K



Answer: Motorola 68030

October 27th, 2008

Special Day

Question: To Linux and OS/2 users, what was February 15, 1999?


Answer: Windows Refund Day

October 26th, 2008

.FM

Question: Several United States FM radio stations have obtained domain names ending with the two-letter prefix FM, for instance 97.FM. What country does the .FM suffix belong to?


Answer: Federated States of Micronesia

October 25th, 2008

Play-Doh

Question: On the MTV program "Celebrity Death Match", who did a claymation Bill Gates fight?

  • Michael Flatley, Lord of the Dance
  • Queen Elizabeth
  • Steve Case
  • Steve Jobs



Answer: Michael Flatley, Lord of the Dance

October 24th, 2008

Neliac

Question: Neliac is a forgotten dialect of what forgotten computer language?

  • Algol
  • COBOL
  • Forth
  • Snobol



Answer: Algol

October 23rd, 2008

GUI

Question: What was the name of the GUI for the Commodore 64?


Answer: GEOS

October 22nd, 2008

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