The BBC Micro

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. The BBC was the product of which computer company? Apple Peach Tangerine Acorn

2. Which of the following produced a mouse for the BBC? AMD ARM ANC AMX

3. What type of serial port would you find on a BBC? RS223 RS432 RS423 RS232

4. What is the name of the port you would use to connect a second processor to the BBC? The Prism The Sphere The Cube The Tube

5. There was a BBC capable of running PC software, what was it called? BBC Master 512 BBC Master BBC Master 186 BBC Master 286

6. Which of the following structures was not found in BBC BASIC? WHILE - DO REPEAT - UNTIL FOR - NEXT GOSUB - RETURN

7. The BBC's speech upgrade featured the sampled voice of which BBC newsreader? Jan Leaming Richard Baker Kenneth Kendal Angela Ripon

8. Which standard BBC screen mode gave a full (8) colour display whilst only taking up about a kilobyte of RAM? Mode 1 Mode 7 Mode 6 Mode 3

9. The BBC has 5 16k ROM sockets located beneath the keyboard, what would they have contained as standard on a new BBC B? OS ROM, BASIC BASIC, LOGO OS ROM, BASIC, DFS BASIC, ADFS, LOGO

10. Let's end with a toughie! What is printed on the BBC circuit board under the CPU? tom's board john's board bob's board billy's board