Quick Nerd Trivia Test

whack, bang, splat ...
 
My initial experience was military - I didn't have to share

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
 
 

I can't answer any of those (probably too young) but here's one from the early days of home computing:

An SYS call to which address (in decimal) would immediately crash a Commodore 64?

craigb
 
For extra credit (or to break any ties):
[font="'courier new', courier; line-height: 1.8"]Also, why were passwords with the letter "g" in them to be avoided?
 

"g" was a ding/bell sound?

craigb
Poor Ed, just one post late! 

FIFO

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?)

sharke
 
It was actually SYS7. 
 

I now remember you mentioning that one before (maybe a year ago?) when we were wool-gathering, I mean reminiscing.  As I recall, fireberd won since he was on the Apollo Program!  LOL.
 
Anyway, you just try SYS 64738 and tell me it doesn't crash your Commodore 64 just as easily as SYS 7! 

craigb

bapu
397-6834
 
Telco # of my H.S. sweetheart who became my first wife.
 
That was 1968. We were married in 1972. Dialed that number nearly every day between 1968 and 1972 on my own landline.

Only, back then, phone numbers had cute names for the first two numbers (mine was Homestead5-8936 where the H and O were replaced with their numerical equivalents 4 and 6).  Since this was your first wife, I'm going to guess EX7-6834 would work! 

Of course but I still just put my finger in the 3 and 9 holes of the rotary dial, so that's how I thought of the number.

Like 697-3647
 

craigb

sharke
 
It was actually SYS7. 
 

I now remember you mentioning that one before (maybe a year ago?) when we were wool-gathering, I mean reminiscing.  As I recall, fireberd won since he was on the Apollo Program!  LOL.
 
Anyway, you just try SYS 64738 and tell me it doesn't crash your Commodore 64 just as easily as SYS 7! 

 
The number rings a bell. Also I remember that on the old Commodore PET if you typed SCRATCH "MY BALLS" it would respond with DEVICE NOT PRESENT ERROR....
 
Endless fun in the computer labs at my school. 

bapu
Post 18 deserves Best Answer, no?
 

448-5037.

or 737-3647

bapu
or 737-3647

Ah, yes!  Pep dogs!  (Or Per Fogs.) 
 
I prefer 867-5309 actually.
 
 
 

10 CLS
20 SLEEP(100)
30 GOTO 10

craigb
Is clearing the screen really necessary? 

Yes.  Often it seems