Executing Gummiworms The trials and tribulations of a grumpy curmudgeonly old git

Answers to the Christmas Quiz

I received about 10 entries into the Christmas Quiz and I'll go through them in a day or so and let those who won know and get their details. In the meantime though here are the answers.

1. The Camputers Lynx
2. There were lots but TRSDOS, NEWDOS, LDOS are three of them.
3. It was exactly the same size as a 1DM coin and fit and worked in all vending machines but was worth a lot less than 1DM.
4. Pascal
5. It's the Z80 mnemonic for load, decrement, repeat e.g. a block move
6. "Beating the system: Hackers, Phreakers and Electronic spies" by Owen Bowcott and Sally Hamilton (Bonus Point: The Groucho Club)
7. Althh, M&T, RUB..... (I was on retty much all of the german chatsystems so hard to get wrong)
8. Corrupt Computing UK aka CCUK
9. Types of hop
10. This one was what most of you will consider a bit of a cheat although it was possible to workout if you are into things like prime numbers. The correct answer is 391 As that is the number of carmichael numbers in the range of  number with 9 digits. You can read more at http://www.kobepharma-u.ac.jp/~math/notes/note02.html -- 1 person actually got that right
11. Althh and acorn.com -- they were/are IPSS nua's
12. Gartree High school & Gartree Prison
13. 1810 & 1814
14. The series was called Science Fiction, The Episode was called Spycatcher, The director was Derek Jones, The producer was Susie Gautier-Smith and the book it was based on was Clifford Stoll's The cuckoo's egg.
15. Equations of uniformly accelerated linear motion