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WEBCAST 24-26 FEB – APRICOT 2025 Conference

From 24th to 26th February 2025, the Malaysia Network Operators Group (MyNOG) hosts the APRICOT 2025 conference in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, as part of a wider nine-day summit consists of seminars, technical training, tutorials, conference sessions, birds-of-a-feather (BOFs), and other forums with the goal of spreading and sharing the knowl

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#Ireland-based #RetroComputing and #VintageComputing folks might be interested in a stash of #IBM, #DEC, #Wyse and other #mainframe and #minicomputer #GreenScreen #terminals, most dating from the 1980s and 1990s (without keyboards, unfortunately), as well as copious sealed #Windows95 CDs ("with USB support"), sealed 3½ inch #FloppyDisks, sealed and unsealed memory modules in the tens of megabytes range, sealed IBM branded PS/2 ball mice, vintage toner cartridges and ink ribbons. There's a single #Amstrad monitor for use with the #CPC454, an intriguing #Apricot-branded machine and some VGA-era monitors. Many of them will need work. There's a functioning #Windows98 machine.

The stash is located in a shed in the village of Rathdowney. You can contact the seller via adverts to arrange to see it: touch.adverts.ie/monitors/vint

The seller is prepared to power on devices for you. I left with only a few handfuls of floppies as I already have more DEC terminals than I need.

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Rowntree's Savannah (sp.?): dark chocolate pyramids filled with chocolate creme and apricot pieces. Very premium product.

Cancelled just before launch as the apricot bits fermented, cracking the chocolate and leaking goo everywhere. Even the non-leaky ones were just kinda nasty tho.

Sold off in the York Rowntree factory shop. One family I knew loved them, so we got two cases of Savannah which they eked out for months.

#chocolate#uk#fail