Colorful
Question: What color were the function keys in the Acorn A3010?
- red
- green
- white
- purple
Answer: green
October 31st, 2008
Posts filed under 'Trivia'
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