bayoubill
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/08 18:08:22
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Looking at all these numbers was confusing so I decided to work up to it by counting up to 3 and I still got 2 out 3 wrong 
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/08 18:14:09
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bayoubill
Looking at all these numbers was confusing so I decided to work up to it by counting up to 3 and I still got 2 out 3 wrong
Typical
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/08 19:43:24
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bayoubill
Looking at all these numbers was confusing so I decided to work up to it by counting up to 3 and I still got 2 out 3 wrong
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/09 12:44:41
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362-4360 (EMerson2-4360) or 588-2300 Empire!
It is weird how some numbers stay with you.
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/09 13:00:29
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Still no takers on the PUSH question, eh? Ok, I'll give it just a little more time...
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/09 16:33:04
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/09 17:06:06
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PUSH = add to the memory stack?
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/09 18:00:22
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bapu
PUSH = add to the memory stack?
The opposite of POP. cue pictures of stacks of cafeteria plates.
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/09 18:23:02
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☄ Helpfulby BobF 2016/08/09 20:53:32
I thought the opposite of POP was MOM.
WOW was I upside down on that?
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/09 18:50:03
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☼ Best Answerby craigb 2016/08/10 01:39:28
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Still no takers on the PUSH question, eh? Ok, I'll give it just a little more time...
Ooohh I know I know I know sir ...... ..... and an older boy did not tell me the answer honest sir ..... "Push" is what Sean Connery calls his cat. Simples.
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/09 18:51:12
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Besht answer please
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/09 18:52:43
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☄ Helpfulby bapu 2016/08/09 20:32:30
Or should that be "shimples" ...
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/09 18:56:04
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Incimidentally, I struggle to understand much of what's said in freds when most of the words are written in English. Lawd knows how I'm struggling with the gobbledecrap in many of the posts in this one  As Garry Bushell might have quothed, "Oi oi no mush".
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/09 19:02:31
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I just don't get it.
Much.
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/09 20:13:24
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SteveStrummerUK
... chortle chortle yuk yuk I crack both myself and Bapsi up ....
Ja
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/09 20:34:23
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bapu
I thought the opposite of POP was MOM.
WOW was I upside down on that?
I see what you did
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/10 01:21:44
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Poor Steve. The Russians had to use COBOL in English, but Steve doesn't get it!
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/10 01:25:57
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Ok, here's the original question: - Dial-in timeshare computers used to require passwords entered while holding the <Ctrl> key down. If your password was "push" what even simpler password could you have used?
Well, the answer is... "p" (yes, just "p"). Why? Because <Ctrl>S does nothing and <Ctrl>H is a backspace which, in this example, deletes the "u" leaving only the initial letter: "p" (simples!). And, since nobody got it but me, I guess I'll just have to declare myself the winner and move on!  
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/10 08:33:15
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ston
Programmers do not call this: / "forward slash" :-p
It's just slash. Not the rubbish guitarist with the silly hat either. This: \ is backslash.
! is bang, or perhaps not ;-)
What are some of the names TCL programmers call this construct: {*} ? :-D
This is definitely the most entertaining reply so far! 
I don't know if this is the right answer to the {*} question since I'd never heard of TCL (and it came out WAY after I had started coding) but, in the early 70's <*> was a star base in the HP2000 Star Trek game so when the first Star Wars movie came out a few years later {*} was used as the Death Star. Now, if "I" can think of a few inappropriate alternatives, but I'll simply wait for your answer.
(&& I'm != funny either, || == I?)
I used to play that game ALL the time on a PDP 11/70! (Star Trek, not Star Wars!)
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/10 08:43:26
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☄ Helpfulby bapu 2016/08/10 09:20:24
I liked Space Invaders.
I have no idea what any of this thread is about.
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/10 09:10:52
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Programmers do not call this: / "forward slash" :-p
It's just slash. Not the rubbish guitarist with the silly hat either. This: \ is backslash.
! is bang, or perhaps not ;-)
What are some of the names TCL programmers call this construct: {*} ? :-D
This is definitely the most entertaining reply so far!
I don't know if this is the right answer to the {*} question since I'd never heard of TCL (and it came out WAY after I had started coding) but, in the early 70's <*> was a star base in the HP2000 Star Trek game so when the first Star Wars movie came out a few years later {*} was used as the Death Star. Now, if "I" can think of a few inappropriate alternatives, but I'll simply wait for your answer.
(&& I'm != funny either, || == I?)
I wasted a lot of hours with "Adventure" and a Honeywell DPS-6 
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/10 12:33:36
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☄ Helpfulby BobF 2016/08/10 13:20:29
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Programmers do not call this: / "forward slash" :-p
It's just slash. Not the rubbish guitarist with the silly hat either. This: \ is backslash.
! is bang, or perhaps not ;-)
What are some of the names TCL programmers call this construct: {*} ? :-D
This is definitely the most entertaining reply so far!
I don't know if this is the right answer to the {*} question since I'd never heard of TCL (and it came out WAY after I had started coding) but, in the early 70's <*> was a star base in the HP2000 Star Trek game so when the first Star Wars movie came out a few years later {*} was used as the Death Star. Now, if "I" can think of a few inappropriate alternatives, but I'll simply wait for your answer.
(&& I'm != funny either, || == I?)
I wasted a lot of hours with "Adventure" and a Honeywell DPS-6
Heh, more trivia! Back in the 70's, with a guy named Lance (can't remember his last name, begins with an "A"), I ported ADVENT (as it was called then - six character maximum) from B (on a UNIX box) to BASIC so it would run on the HP2000. It had a pretty innovative language processor for the time. A hollow voice says "Plugh!"
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/10 12:35:06
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Man how people hated the maze trying to get the stuff back that the Pirate had stole! They rarely checked to see if they could go UP.
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/10 12:59:12
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/10 13:00:20
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"YOU ARE IN A LITTLE MAZE OF TWISTING PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT."
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/10 13:28:08
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The revised, politically correct, version will have "Throw sharp instrument on a stick at vertically challenged person!"
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/10 13:30:41
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Heh, I STILL have the code for the game!
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/10 13:55:00
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I kept a FORTRAN deck for it for ages. That went out with the 8" floppies years ago.
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Re: Quick Nerd Trivia Test
2016/08/10 14:08:55
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☄ Helpfulby BobF 2016/08/10 15:01:12
I am not a nerd, but I am glad to know that all the nerds here let me hang around with them. I also like the fact that nerds can make some real cool stuff so that I am able to kill lots of time.
To all the nerds, I salute you.
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