$1B0) What was COMPUTE!'s original sub title?
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"The Journal for Progressive Computing".
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$1B1) After COMPUTE! was absorbed by General Media, how did the name
change?
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The name, having gained an exclamation point and lost a period many
years before, reverted back to the period as the ending punctuation.
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$1B2) What Commodore content magazine was named after a nautical term?
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"Ahoy!" was the answer I was looking for, but "Commodore" magazine
also qualifies.
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$1B3) What Commodore content magazine was named after a BASIC keyword?
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"RUN", and someone mentioned "Input"
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$1B4) What CPU gets control first when a Commodore 128 is booted?
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The Z80 CPU has control first.
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$1B5) What CPU powered the Commodore C900?
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The Zilog Z8000, from the company who borught us the popular Z80.
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$1B6) How large is the monitor installed in the SX64?
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$1B7) What color scheme does the SX64 boot up into?
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White screen with cyan border and blue text.
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$1B8) What is printed as the stock SX64 boot up screen?
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***** SX-64 BASIC V2.0 *****
64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE
READY.
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$1B9) The SX64 has a reset switch behind the door that holds the
monitor controls. What is strange about the rest switch?
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The reset switch only resets the disk drive. Most people assume it
resets the entire computer system.
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$1BA) What common port is not included on the SX64?
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$1BB) In the mid 1980's, a company called Berkeley Softworks created
a graphical user environment for the Commodore 64. What was it
called?
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Graphical Environment Operating System (GEOS).
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$1BC) Berkeley Softworks eventually changed their name to what?
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GEOWorks. They now develop the GEOS OS for Personal Digital
Assistants (PDA).
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$1BD) Most everyone is familiar with MSD disk drives. What does MSD
stand for?
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Micro Systems Development, Inc.
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$1BE) On the NMOS 6502, what two addressing modes have but one opcode
each that can operate in that mode?
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Actually, there is only one such mode, indirect. jmp (xxxx) is
the only opcode that can utilize that addressing mode.
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$1BF) How many transfer register opcodes are there on the NMOS 6502?
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6 (TAX, TAY, TSX, TXA, TXS, TYA).
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