**Friday Komputa Cryptic Quiz! **

7

5. web

5 good answer though

23. virus

23

1. Information on public transport
2. Where caught fish may go (INTERNET)
3. Lizard
4. Your brain?
5. Sticky
6. HAL upgrade? (IBM)
7. Mum's fed up (MOTHERBOARD)
8. Twinned supercomputer
9. Circuit jumper
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
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!
18. Sheep cuts
19. Principal protection for Windows? (MAINFRAME)
20. Offers success, but leads to exclamations of frustration!
21. Stuttering eccentric
22. Quiet navigator? (MOUSE)
23. Volatile stuff
24. Roger's principal
25. Walking in a rational manner

(have added something to 8)
"rams" and "ram chips" were close to another answer
A couple of platforms in here

24. cookie

24

squares • June 5, 2020 1:34 PM BST
3. monitor

hint: volatile describes this type of memory

23 ram?

random access memory

apologies squares, and thanks for pointing out pp...
3 squares
MONITOR

23

also wd squares
23 is RAM

4. control panel

4
this is a very common term for a single user machine

4. Machine

20 Keyboard

4
20

21. Dodgson

21
(anagram of first word )

1. Information on public transport
2. Where caught fish may go (INTERNET)
3. Lizard (MONITOR)
4. Your brain?
5. Sticky
6. HAL upgrade? (IBM)
7. Mum's fed up (MOTHERBOARD)
8. Twinned supercomputer
9. Circuit jumper
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
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!
18. Sheep cuts
19. Principal protection for Windows? (MAINFRAME)
20. Offers success, but leads to exclamations of frustration!
21. Stuttering eccentric
22. Quiet navigator? (MOUSE)
23. Volatile stuff (RAM)
24. Roger's principal
25. Walking in a rational manner

A couple of O/S platforms in here
5 acronym for common way to interact with your computer
21 is AI related
4 your desktop machine?

15. DOS

4 memory

21. Turing

15
4

21
(half way! :)

21. Turing test?

(I should have said 'a few' operating system platforms in here, still 2 more after DOS....and I still can't count!)

4 integrated circuit

21 alan turing

21
wd Cauthen, anagram of STUTTERING (which is no way having a go at Turing, just one of those peculiar coincidences that couldn't be passed by! :)

1 bus network

4 but a good answer
What is the IC inside of?
Just a cryptic way of looking at what your brain is...(I hope no-one has already said it, I must keep checking back...)

4 processor

17 personal computer

4
larger than that

17

4 Hard wired

1. Information on public transport
2. Where caught fish may go (INTERNET)
3. Lizard (MONITOR)
4. Your brain?
5. Sticky
6. HAL upgrade? (IBM)
7. Mum's fed up (MOTHERBOARD)
8. Twinned supercomputer
9. Circuit jumper   
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!
18. Sheep cuts
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. Walking in a rational manner

A couple of O/S platforms in here
5 acronym for common way to interact with your computer
4 your desktop machine?
1. two words. a word for information plus a word for public transport (already given by LG)
'on' might be misleading, but this was just cryptically saying one word is 'on' the other, for the surface reading, but it':
"information" + "public transport" (actually, this answer perhaps did venture into obscurity! )

4
(but answer had been given...)

^very recently

*has been given, that should have said

1. Busgen?

Or Genbus

4. PC

4 personal computer

1
two words: something + BUS

4
That's right, your brain could be thought of as your 'personal computer'!  But apologies if that was perhaps more of a cryptic stretch than I originally thought

Also wd pp

1 address bus

1 data bus

1 pp
DATA BUS

(perhaps I've remembered a bit too much from my computer studies days! lol. In retrospect, prob not a computer term that easily comes to mind.)

8 proxy server

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
9. Circuit jumper   
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!
18. Sheep cuts
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. Walking in a rational manner

A couple of O/S platforms in here
5 acronym for common way to interact with your computer
24 relates to principal of rate of increase of computer speeds
18 female sheep and your half-way there...
9 another type of personal computer
17 acronym referring to, that which you see on the screen is precisely what you should see when you print it
8 think of famous twins

9. Laptop

8
a pun on famous twins

9

9 laptop

17, WYSIWYG

8. Romulus and Remus

17 wd LG

(18 female sheep and you're half-way there... )  I hate seeing typos like that, and I just did it!

also wd pp on #9

8 Cray

8
think of the underworld

8

18. Unix

5 is a pun, 18 is a pun.

25 is probably the stinkiest to get, will have to think of a better clue for that...

18   (sorry for these awful puns!)

25. Android

24 I could say "Bond actor's principal"

5. Memory stick

25
5

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

25 - is what  meant, not the shocked emoji thing!

5 tac

8 Cray

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.

5
8 that one's got now Tim

20. Windows

24 Moore's law

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

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

24

5. GUI

25. Drive

5

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

25 logic gate

25
two words
you get AND types and OR types!

25 pp

You get nor and not ones also.

we everyone. I think that turned out stinkier than I first imagined!  But as they say, always very easy when you know the answers!

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

you do indeed pp. And you'll be glad to know, there will be NOR more of these!  (to finish on anther bad pun! )

Well done, something different, cheers.

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 (GUI)
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! (WINDOWS)
21. Stuttering eccentric (TURING TEST)
22. Quiet navigator? (MOUSE)
23. Volatile stuff (RAM)
24. Roger's principal (MOORE'S LAW)
25. Walking in a rational manner (LOGIC GATE)

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.

Also have to comment on the fact that there were lots of alternative answers given today that could easily have fitted some of the clues.
Thanks for taking part again, have a great weekend everyone .

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

Thanks hfink
I real;l;y should refresh before posting answers, twice today they`d already been posted

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!

Is it me today? If so, ready at 1.00

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

Tim - Saturday
squares - Sunday