25
5

5 is short acronym...sounds like a word meaning sticky

5 tac

1. Information on public transport (DATA BUS)
2. Where caught fish may go (INTERNET)
3. Lizard (MONITOR)
4. Your brain? PERSONAL COMPUTER / PC
5. Sticky
6. HAL upgrade? (IBM)
7. Mum's fed up (MOTHERBOARD)
8. Twinned supercomputer (CRAY)
9. Circuit jumper (LAPTOP)   
10. You can have one in Red, Green or Toffee (APPLE)
11. Oceanic chess champion (DEEP BLUE)
12. I'm for cost changes (MICROSOFT)
13. In favour of a small weight (PROGRAM)
14. Comfortable clothing (SOFTWARE)
15. Laze around (DOS)
16. I'm getting hungry - shall we have a ____ at two to eight? (BYTE)
17. All that's in front of you is yours - and nothing more! (WYSIWYG)
18. Sheep cuts (UNIX)
19. Principal protection for Windows? (MAINFRAME)
20. Offers success, but leads to exclamations of frustration!
21. Stuttering eccentric (TURING TEST)
22. Quiet navigator? (MOUSE)
23. Volatile stuff (RAM)
24. Roger's principal
25. Reasoning with entrance

5 acronym for common way to interact with your computer (pun on word for sticky)
24 relates to principal of rate of increase of computer speeds: Bond actor's principle / rule
20 is a very common OS
25 is a bit low level inside the computer. I've rewritten the clue.

20. Windows

20
and apologies for another terrible pun "WIN" + "DOHs" !

(but also a true comment on Windows of course! )

5. GUI

5

(sorry, this is full of groan-worth puns!)

25
two words
you get AND types and OR types!

You get nor and not ones also.

Think that's the lot, thanks hfink, very interesting wee change

Well done, something different, cheers.

Cheers pp, LG and everyone. Thought I'd try something different. But as I say, normal service resumed on weekend with Tim and squares

"Turing Test" gave me a pleasant surprise when I plugged it into Wordsmith, and came out stuttering!  Though there are different stories about the severity of his stuttering, and whether it was technically a stutter at all. But at least it ties in with most portrayals of him, by Jakobi etc.

p.s. should have rethought 25, a bit rushed that one. Walking in a rational manner (if there was such a thing!) would be a 'logical gait', not 'logic gait'. Could have done a lot better with that one

Cheers Tim. I think it's a common thing Tim, I've done it a lot, and I think it's a lot to do with the slowness of the forum and the time it takes to refresh. We're probably loath to refresh too often because of the time it takes. But if anyone gives the same correct answer in very close time, I think we can almost consider it a draw, esp with some people no doubt having slower forum response times than others. That's why I like to say wd to anyone else who gets the right answer.

I've also got to learn to check back more - I missed another correct answer today after a refresh, and my quick reading skills are terrible!

Hi Tim, yes I think you're up today. Sorry, should have finished yesterday's recapping the sched:

Tim - Saturday
squares - Sunday