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E: 27/05? Win A Raspberry Pi

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  • nc30rider
    nc30rider Posts: 299 Forumite
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    PastaMan wrote: »
    Isn't it Apricot as the other are all Computer/Technology names

    Acorn Computers (from the 80s)
    Apple Computers
    Blackberry mobile phones
    Raspberry PI
    Apricot ?

    Just a thought

    R

    Good call :cool:
  • ChilliP2012
    ChilliP2012 Posts: 330 Forumite
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    PastaMan wrote: »
    Isn't it Apricot as the other are all Computer/Technology names

    Acorn Computers (from the 80s)
    Apple Computers
    Blackberry mobile phones
    Raspberry PI
    Apricot ?

    Just a thought

    R

    Very good shout, I was thinking along those lines, but couldn't recall a computer called Acorn. After googling it kind of refreshed my memory.
    What a load of dunderheids!
  • PastaMan
    PastaMan Posts: 24 Forumite
    Yes, Acorn famously stole the lucrative contract from Clive Sinclair to produce the BBC Micro
  • nc30rider
    nc30rider Posts: 299 Forumite
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apricot_Computers


    Would that make the odd one out BlackBerry? Being a mobile maker?
  • ChilliP2012
    ChilliP2012 Posts: 330 Forumite
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    Lol, this gets worse :p
    What a load of dunderheids!
  • chelsea1969
    chelsea1969 Posts: 6,092 Forumite
    I give up ...
    :p
  • hdh74
    hdh74 Posts: 2,879 Forumite
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    nc30rider wrote: »
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apricot_Computers


    Would that make the odd one out BlackBerry? Being a mobile maker?

    Is the blackberry playbook a computer though?

    This is starting to do my nut in. ;P
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  • nc30rider
    nc30rider Posts: 299 Forumite
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    hdh74 wrote: »
    Is the blackberry playbook a computer though?

    Seeing as that's what I'm typing this with (a win), then yes you are correct!!
    I've gone with my original choice of Acorn :rotfl:
  • smartt21
    smartt21 Posts: 2,484 Forumite
    dogcat wrote: »
    Tells me that I've already entered....I don't remember this one .

    Me too, but know I haven't entered this one! :(
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  • ianmurf
    ianmurf Posts: 542 Forumite
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    PastaMan wrote: »
    Isn't it Apricot as the other are all Computer/Technology names

    Acorn Computers (from the 80s)
    Apple Computers
    Blackberry mobile phones
    Raspberry PI
    Apricot ?

    Just a thought

    R
    On the page before where you click to enter the competition it says:

    "If you want to win one, click on the link below and answer a suitably nerdy question to be in with a chance"

    I would say that apricot would be a suitably nerdy answer based on Pastaman's post
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