From: brain@garnet.msen.com (Jim Brain) Subject: Commodore Trive Edition #2 Answers Date: 15 Feb 1994 01:41:03 GMT Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, MI (account info: +1 313 998-4562) Lines: 444 Message-ID: <2jp97f$fao@nigel.msen.com> Reply-To: brain@msen.com NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.msen.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Here are the answers to the Commodore trivia questions for January, 1994. These are just a couple days late, but I have not forgotten. Following this post are the questions for the February Edition. Note: If your name appears below as a respondent and you think you answered the question correctly, I am all ears, but some questions did ask for more than one part, which meant that, to get the question right, I needed two correct responses from you. Keep that in mind. Q $00A) What was the Code-Name of the Amiga while in Development? A $00A) Lorraine. Amiga was the company name. When Commodore bought the company, they scrapped the model name and used the old company name. Correct Responses: Marko Makela David Butcher Craig Taylor Mark Spacek Richard Bradley Scott Maxwell Ethan Dicks L. McClure (L = ?) Doug Spence Joseph Korczynski Paul Liss Q $00B) What is Lord British's Real Name (The creator of the Ultima Series)? A $00B) Richard Garriott. Scott Statton has met him and says that he is son of astronaut Owen Garriott. The trivia question that this brings up is whether Garriott is spelled with two 't's or one. Anyone care to clarify. I have a magazine that says two, but it might be a typo. Correct Responses: Scott Stratton Mark Spacek Scott Maxwell Ethan Dicks George Page Joseph Korczynski Paul Liss Q $00C) What is the POKE location and value that will fry an early model PET? A $00C) 59458. It is in the (Versatile Interface Adapter, 6522) No, I won't tell you what to poke into it, but I will tell you that it is not te only way to fry a PET. here is a description from none other than Jim Butterfield "The poke shopwn aboveis correct. Its intention was to speed up early model PETs by masking the RETRACE line (by switching it to output)... however, Commodore subsequently REDESIGNED the interface in such a way that making the VIA pin an output caused (now) two outputs to fight each other ... result, VIA and/or video circuitry burnt out. LATER (Days of "fat 40" and 80-column PETs), the new CRT controller chip could be fiddled with POKES so that it generated scan rates completely out of the capacity of the CRT deflection circuits. Result: burnt out deflection circuitry ... and that was no YOKE!" Richard Bradley says that 59595 is the second poke that Jim is referring to. I also have in on word from Ethan Dicks that 59409 is another infamous poke, but I wouldn't try any of these! Correct Responses: Richard Bradley Scott Maxwell Ethan Dicks Q $00D) On the Plus 4 and C-16, the VIC chip was replaced with the TED chip. What does TED stand for? A $00D) TED = Text Editing Device. It did not have as many capabilities as the VIC II. Correct Responses: L. McClure Q $00E) Commodore Produced a Letter Quality Printer in North America (maybe elsewhere) for the Commodore Serial Line. Name it. A $00E) The Commodore DPS 1101. Of course I should have made this question more explicit. The DPS 1101 is a daisy wheel printer, and I wrote this question back when Ink Jets and Laser printers were not a gleam in user's eyes. Commodore has since sold many ink jet printers for the Amiga line, so those answers were accepted. The CBM 6400 was not accepted, unless someone can prove it had a serial interface in addition to the IEEE-488 interface. Correct Responses: Richard Bradley Scott Maxwell Ethan Dicks L. McClure George Page Joseph Korczynski hermit@cats.ucsc.edu Q $00F) What is the version of DOS in the 1541? A $00F) 2.6 Correct Responses: Marko Makela Mark Spacek finkel@math.tau.ac.il Scott Maxwell Ethan Dicks George Page Mark Caban Joseph Korczynski Q $010) What is the Version of BASIC in the Plus 4 and the C-16? A $010) 3.5. Correct Responses: Scott Maxwell Ethan Dicks Ross Capdeville L. McClure George Page Joseph Korczynski Q $011) What are the nicknames of the original three custom Amiga chips? A $011) Daphne/Denise, Agnes/Agnus, and Paula/Portia, or Huey, Duey, and Louie. Denise, Agnes, and Paula were the American names, but the the others crept in from somwhere. the ducks were always a joke, but caught on as alternate names. Correct Responses: Scott Stratton Stewart Stremler Marko Makela Mark Spacek Craig Taylor finkel@math.tau.ac.il Scott Maxwell Ethan Dicks David Begley Ronald van loon L. McClure Doug Spence Mark Caban Joseph Korczynski Paul Liss Q $012) Commodore produced a 64 in a PET case. What is its name and model number? A $012) The Educator 64. It was model number CBM 4064, and it was also called the PET64. Note that this version of the 64 was the second attempt. Commodore first tried to sell the "Educator 64" to schools in the regular 64 case, but administrators and teachers disliked the "homey" look. Thus, it was squeezed into a PET case and sold better, although I don't think it was ever a killer seller. Correct Responses: Marko Makela Richard Bradley Doug Spence George Page Joseph Korczynski Q $013) Commodore sold a 1 megabyte floppy disk drive in a 1541 case. Give the model number. A $013) The Commodore SFD 1001. It was actually half of an CBM 8250 LP with a slightly revised ROM. Correct Responses: Marko Makela Mark Spacek Craig Taylor Richard Bradley finkel@math.tau.ac.il Scott Maxwell Ethan Dicks L. McClure George Page Mark Caban Joseph Korczynski hermit@cats.ucsc.edu Paul Liss Q $014) What does GCR stand for? A $014) Group Code Recording. Correct Responses: Scott Stratton Marko Makela David Butcher Mark Spacek finkel@math.tau.ac.il Richard Hable Scott Maxwell Ethan Dicks David Begley Ross Capdeville L. McClure Doug Spence George Page Joseph Korczynski Q $015) Commodore produced a drive to accompany the Plus 4 introduction. Give the model number. A $015) the CBM 1551 is the correct answer, although we still aren't sure how many, if any, were sold. The 1542 was just a repackaged 1541 that was for sale if you didn't want the added features or the price of the 1551, since the 1551 had a parallel data transfer option in addition to the serial one. Correct Responses: Marko Makela Craig Taylor Scott Maxwell Ethan Dicks L. McClure George Page Mark Caban Joseph Korczynski hermit@cats.ucsc.edu Q $016) What does SID stand for? A $016) SID = Sound Interface Device Correct Responses: Scott Stratton Marko Makela Mark Spacek Craig Taylor finkel@math.tau.ac.il Richard Hable Scott Maxwell Ethan Dicks David Begley Ross Capdeville Ronald van loon L. McClure George Page Mark Caban Joseph Korczynski hermit@cats.ucsc.edu Q $017) What does the acronym KERNAL stand for? A $017) KERNAL = Keyboard Entry Read, Network, And Link. Again, I think this is a words after the letters acronym, so take it for what it is worth. Correct Responses: Q $018) What version of DOS does the 1571 have? A $018) 3.0 Correct Responses: Marko Makela Scott Maxwell George Page Q $019) What other two Commdore Disk Drives share the same DOS version number as the 1571? A $019) Any of the following answers receive full credit even though I was actually looking for the hard drive numbers. The CBM D9060 and D9090, although I doubt the code is the same. The D series were hard drives. The 1570, which was a single sided version of the 1571 in a 1541 case painted to match the 128. The ROM is slightly different, enough to make it unrecognizable as either a 1541 or a 1571 in some cases. Note: I also accepted the 1571II and the 1571D, the drive that is inside the C128D, although I think these responses are somewhat a given. Correct Responses: Ethan Dicks got the hard drives George Page got the hard drives Q $01A) How many files will the 1571 hold? A $01A) 144 in both modes. I am surprised Commodore didn't add a track or put another directory on the back. Correct Responses: Marko Makela Scott Maxwell Ross Capdeville George Page Joseph Korczynski Q $01B) How many files will the 1541 hold? A $01B) 144. Someone even sent me the calculation used to arrive at this number. Correct Responses: Marko Makela Craig Taylor Richard Hable Scott Maxwell Ethan Dicks Alan Curry Ross Capdeville George Page Mark Caban Joseph Korczynski hermit@cats.ucsc.edu Paul Liss Q $01C) What did Commodore make right before entering the computer market? A $01C) Calculators. They also made office Equipment, hence the name. Also, they made watches, adding machines, and thermostats. Correct Responses: Scott Stratton Stewart Stremler Marko Makela Craig Taylor Richard Bradley finkel@math.tau.ac.il Scott Maxwell Ethan Dicks (He has a calculator) L. McClure Doug Spence George Page Joseph Korczynski hermit@cats.ucsc.edu Q $01D) Commodore introduced an ill-fated 4 color plotter. Give the model number. A $01D) the Commodore 1520. It used 4 inch wide paper and could use 4 colors. Correct Responses: Marko Makela David Butcher Richard Bradley Scott Maxwell Ethan Dicks L. McClure George Page Mark Caban Joseph Korczynski hermit@cats.ucsc.edu Paul Liss Q $01E) Some formats of CP/M write disks using the MFM format. What does MFM stand for? A $01E) MFM = Modified Frequency Modulation Correct Responses: Scott Stratton Marko Makela finkel@math.tau.ac.il Richard Hable Ethan Dicks David Begley L. McClure George Page Q $01F) On the Commdore 128, the user manual left two commands undocumented. One works, and the other gives a not-implemented error. Name both commands and what each one does or does not do. A $01F) The responses to this questions gave me more than I needed. It turns out that Commodore left THREE commands undocumented, but at least one works. Any 2 of these 3 answers are sufficient, although no one answered the first one. RREG reads the internal registers after a SYS command. OFF gives an unimplemented command error. QUIT does too. Correct Responses: Marko Makela Ross Capdeville George Page New questions coming! Wow, some people racked up impressive scores, but the winner of this month is: George Page! Here are the scores for Edition #2: George Page 17 Ethan Dicks 16 Scott Maxwell 16 Joseph Korczynski 15 Marko Makela 15 L. McClure 12 Richard Bradley 7 Mark Caban 7 finkel@math.tau.ac.il 7 hermit@cats.ucsc.edu 7 Mark Spacek 7 Craig Taylor 7 Ross Capdeville 6 Paul Liss 6 Scott Stratton 6 Doug Spence 5 David Begley 4 Richard Hable 4 David Butcher 3 Stewart Stremler 2 Ronald van loon 2 Alan Curry 1 Well, there is no way people can get 17 on next month's Edition! Jim Brain -- Jim Brain, Embedded Systems Designer, Brain Innovations. brain@msen.com Dabbling in VR, Old Commodore Computers, and Good Times! "The above views DO reflect my employer, since I am my employer" - Jim Brain