Time to put many of you out of your misery and announce the winners of two PCN competitions.

Delving back into the mists of time, you may recall a Lynx competition. Name the 96K Lynx, we said, and we'll give you a machine - five of them, in fact. The 96K model was to fit between the home machine, named the Leisure, and the business machine, named the Laureate.

In the circumstances, the favourite was the Link (no 'missing Link' jokes necessary). Eight of you came up with this name and the first five out of the hat were: Peter Rowley, of Croydon, Surrey; Sandra Clayburm, of Northolt, Middlesex; T. M. Wildey, of Bexley, Kent; Roy Powell, of Cowdenbeath, Fife; and Mark Putland, of Greenford, Middlesex.

Given the situation at Camputers Lynx, which called in the receiver in June, the planned prizes are going to be a problem. If the above winners would like to contact us, we can discuss alternative prizes.

And in a gesture of unprecedented generosity, we'll be sending consolation prizes to C. Matthews, of Newton Aycliffe, Co. Durham; R. A. Perrett, of Yeovil, Somerset; and Duncan Waddington, of Blackpool, Lancs, who also came up with the Link.

More recently, we offered an Amstrad CPC464 with colour monitor to the sender of the correct answers to four questions. There was a massive response to this one - an indicator of the potential success of the Amstrad - and the first name one of the metaphorical hat was Keith Hart, of Hanwell, London.

There were also winners too numerous to mention of the 150 runner-up prizes of games cassettes from CDS. These are on their way now.

The answers were: the original codename of the CPC464 was Arnold, it uses Locomotive Basic and a 6845 display chip, and the Colossus of ancient history was in Rhodes (hard luck the know-alls who mentioned the Colossus computer of Bletchley Park - hardly ancient history, was it?)

• There's still a week in which to enter our current Commodore 64 competition if you have issues 71 and 72. You won't have time to order them from our back issues department.