20 Goto 10: 10101001 facts about retro computers

Cover
Contents
Warning!
Preface
The game
0 - False
0 - First!
0 - NOP
0 - CC
0 - Dewey Decimal Classification
0 - Abbreviations
1 - I’d buy that for a dollar
1 - First!
1 - REM Captain Blood Kill 5 Duplicate Planet Find?
1 - True
1.3591409 - The square root of 0.25
1⅞ - IPS
2 - Alignment
2 - BBC Micro
2 - 2’s complement
2 - First!
2 - Last!
2 - Psion Series 3
2 - Epson QX-16
2.04 - Commodore Amiga A500+
3 - Optimising for size
3 - The stages of an oxbow lake
3 - Randomness
3 - Tandy TRS 80 Model III
4 - The first computer bug
4 - 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System
4 - Mattel Aquarius
4 - Amstrad numeric notation
4 - Geneve 9640
4 - Bugs in Jet Set Willy
4 - MSX
4 - Peripherals for processing
4 - Reverse Polish Notation
5 - Atari 800XL
5 - Keys
5 - SCRUMPI
6 - Oric Atmos
6 - Nintendo Game Boy
6 - King’s Parade
6 - The ZX Spectrum Screen Display
7 - Commodore 128
8 - Bits in a byte
8 - CHIP-8
8 - Type-in listings
8 - DEC PDP-8
9 - Nine Tiles
10 - BASIC
10 - Disabling the break key
10 - Tales of Chuckie Egg
10 - Jupiter Ace
10 - Toshiba HX-10
10 - New pence
10 - PRINT “Always get someone to cheque your work. ”;
10 - Seconds
11 - Luxor ABC80
12 - Celebrity
13 - Level 13
13 - Points
13 - ROT
14 - Canary traps
14 - Chips
14 - Computer kits
15 - C15, C60, C90
15 - REM SNAKESNAKESNAKE
15 - Saving to tape
16 - RAM Pack
18 - Certificate 18
18 - Elliott 903
19 - Musicians with computers
20 - What is retro?
20 - A friendly number
25 - Willis Road, Cambridge, UK
25 - Aquarius I and II
28 - Peripherals for output
30 - Monmouth Street
30 - Storage
31 - Canon Cat
31 - Peripherals for input
33⅓ - Revolutions per minute
40 - Commodore 64
40 - Keyboards
49 - Optimising for speed
50 - Compilations
50 - Signetics Instructor 50
64 - Spanish import law
64 - Custom keyboard for the Commodore 64
70 - Bugs
80 - Columns
80 - Tangerine Microtan 65
80 - Sharp MZ-80A
80 - RC2014
80 - Sinclair ZX80
81 - Sinclair ZX81
82 - Sinclair ZX Spectrum+
84 - LCD displays
86 - BBC cassettes
99 - Press to continue
99 - Dots
100 - The extent of computer upgrades
103 - Research Machines 380Z
110 - Fulbourn Road
127 - 127 or 255?
128 - Bytes
128 - Elan Enterprise 128
135 - Easter eggs
147 - CLS
199 - Acorn Electron
201 - Cursor keys
205.5 - How to draw a maze in one line
246 - The Indiana Pi Bill
250 - Acorn Archimedes
256 - Nintendo Game Boy Boot ROM
256 - The $2.56 reward program
256 - The Pac-Man kill screen
300 - Kansas City
301 - REM Video Genie EG3003
357 - In-jokes
376 - Aquarius MX
399 - Sinclair QL
400 - Atari 400
451 - Fahrenheit 451
464 - Amstrad CPC 464
500 - Commodore Amiga
640 - ‘Ought to be enough for anybody’
666 - In-jokes
672 - 1K Chess
720 - Copy protection
754 - IEEE 754
1000 - A kilobyte
1000 - Sega Master System
1024 - Not a kilobyte
1099 - SAM Coupé
1200 - BASICODE
1200 - Acorn BBC Micro baud rate
1500 - Computer sounds in music
1701 - Licensed and unlicensed material
1802 - Netronics ELF II
1982 - The year 1982
1992 - The year 1992
2000 - The future
2002 - The year 2002
2012 - The year 2012
5150 - The first personal computer
6128 - Amstrad CPC 6128
6581 - Sound generation
6847 - Dragon 32
16509 - ZX81 1K Display
31250 - MIDI
31900 - With prizes
35899 - PEEK and POKE
38911 - Bytes
49152 - PEEK 49152
49152 - Commodore PET
49152 - SYS 49152
65495 - Going faster
69105 - Leaves
1000000 - Sales
2455992 - The Cathode Ray Tube
3333360 - Pac-Man Hi Score
16777216 - Colour
40404243 - The Beatles’ birthdates
1597463007 - Inverse Square Root
2147483647 - Seconds
Appendix 0 - Computing Terms
Appendix 1 - Character sets
Appendix 2 - Keys on a keyboard
Appendix 3 - Year of release
Appendix 4 - CPUs in use
Appendix 5 - CPU families
Appendix 6 - Inflation
Appendix 7 - What type of retro fan are you?
Appendix 50 - Cascade Cassette 50 – Contents
Appendix 256 - Number conversions
Appendix 4294967295 - Everything