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VIC-20

Specialty Definition: VIC-20

Domain	Definition
Computing	VIC-20 A home computer made by Commodore with a 6502 CPU, similar in style to the Commodore 64 and Commodore C16. The VIC-20 was released before the C64, and after the Commodore PET(?). It was intended to be more of a low-end home computer than the PET. The VIC-20 had connectors for game cartridges and a tape drive (compatible with a C64). It came with five kilobytes of RAM, but 1.5 KB were used by the system for various things, like the video display (which had an unusual 22x20 char/line screen layout), and other dynamic aspects of the operating system (such as it was). The RAM was expandable with a plug-in cartridge which used the same expansion port as games. Port expander boxes were available to allow more than one cartridge to be connected at a time. RAM cartridges were available in several sizes: 3K, 8K, 16K and 32K. The internal memory map was re-organised with the addition of each size cartridge, leading to the situation that some programs would only work if the right amount of memory was available. The 32K cartridges were all third-party and had switches to allow the RAM to be enabled in sections so that any expansion size could be achieved. BASIC programs could use at most 24 KB of RAM. Any extra occupied the location usually used by ROM cartridges (i.e. games). This allowed people to copy ROM cartridges to tape and distribute them to their friends, who could load the tape into the top 8k of their 32k RAM packs. The name "VIC" came from the Video Interface Chip that was also used in the other, later, Commodore 8-bit computers. (2000-03-28). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: VIC-20

Specialty definitions using "VIC-20": B1FF, bitty box. (references)

Commercial Usage: VIC-20

Domain	Title
Books	Compute!'s Vic-20 and Commodore 64 Tool Kit: Kernal (reference) Electronic Party: Vic-20 With 8K Memory Expander, Cassette (reference) Square Pairs: Vic-20 With 8K Expander, Cassette (reference) (more book examples)
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Anagrams: VIC-20

Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "0-2-c-i-v"
	-2 letters: civ.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: VIC-20

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 49 43 2D 32 30

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01001001 01000011 00101101 00110010 00110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#73 &#67 &#45 &#50 &#48

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0049 0043 002D 0032 0030

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

564337152018

INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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