Useless Trivia - 1st one to answer gets to ask

commadore 64

 

that could be correct, i don't want to say it is wrong
do you have any references?


it is not the one i am thinking of, though

 

Apple?

 

the apple iis disk controller didn't like it when you went past 1mhz

 

i think this question is just to useless
and too hard to answer i think i will retract it

 

Nope. If you don't get a correct answer in a day or two, you give the answer and ask an easier question.

 

well, it had a Cassette drive used to store data, overclocking it could allow it to store more data since unlike hard drives today the cassette ran at a constant speed and so the amount of data stored was dependent on how fast the CPU could write it.

 

If Commadore 64 is close ,I'll take a wild guess .
Sinclair

 

oh maybe it was the sinclair 80 with the cassette drive....i dont know...was a long time ago, but i do know that we could manipulate the amount of storage. now overclocking was not really an option, but slowing down the tape was...

 

cassette tape you got it down pretty close to what i was thinking of. think 1977 but it was a little faster then stock cassette tape....

 

ya i remember the propaganda at the time... you could pay like $300 for their "special" tape drive...but imagine how we all felt when we found out that nearly any $25 cassette tape player would work.

the only issue i could remember is that you could not swap tapes from one machine to another, but that just required us to carry the tape drive because it would move from one machine to another just fine.

 

okay i waited 2 days, didnt get the answer i wanted. well you didnt lose, because u probably came with some good answers too

the one i was wanting was either "trs-80 model I" or "exatron stringy floppy", the exatron unit was $99 connected to the back of the model I (it came out for other computers). the exatron stringy floppy was a loopless high speed microcasette that wrote about 7500 baud to the tapes. wafers came in 5' to 50' lenghts. it was similar to an 8 track tape, you couldnt rewind it. they were really popular because your stock 5 1/4" single sided drive floppy was $500 without the expansion interface which you needed to run disks.


50' store about 50k

overlocking the model I caused the ESF to write at 14,000 baud, thus storing 100k on a 50' wafer

yeah casette tapes was right too.

alternate questions 1 easy 1 hard

easy question
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name the only president that had a phd

hard question
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if you played games in the 80s. this one might be easy. i made up this question as an anti google counter measure. it should take maybe a few minutes to find the answer with google

question

MARS + MINISTRELS + BLACK EGG = ?

bonus points for getting both

 

Eleven days idle, so I'll jump in here:

What literary device does John Milton eschew when speaking of god and heaven?

 

11 day idle. answers

easy question
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name the only president that had a phd

answer : woodrow wilson
hard question
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question

MARS + MINISTRELS + BLACK EGG = ?
answer 6532


the game was starflight by electronic arts. as a copy protection measure, it came with a code wheel. if you typed in the wrong code, the starflight police would come after you and kick your butt.

 

paradise lost is an allegory.

 

Wrong answer.

The etiquette here is to wait to have your answer confirmed before asking a question.

My question was specifically What literary device does John Milton eschew when speaking of god and heaven?

In other words, what literary device, used throughout the poem, is glaringly absent when he speaks of god and heaven, and then returns the moment the focus shifts to other matters?

 

my apologies x2.

 

Apology accepted. Care to take a crack at the answer? It's a common literary device, used by writers all the time, and used by Milton intensively and extensively in Paradise Lost. He is in fact a master of it. But for very well-considered reasons, he chooses to never ever use it even once in the passages where he speaks of god and heaven. He does this, of course, to accentuate the difference between our world and heaven, between god and human things, and between heaven and hell. (He uses this device a great deal and to powerful effect when speaking of hell and Satan.)

What literary device am I speaking of?

 

to be honest, it's been a long time since i studied milton.. how about enjambment?

 

Nope. He does use that a lot, but it's not the thing he leaves aside when speaking of god and heaven.

Anyone else? Do we have no literary types here? I'll give it another day. 48 hours seems a reasonable time for a puzzler.