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Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time?

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At 19 Jul 2015 21:14:05 GMT ray carter <ray@zianet.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 10:54:02 -0700, pureheart wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> > After reading up a bit on the Raspberry Pi, single board computer, I
> > wonder if anyone is using such a thing as their daily machine and how it
> > fares, if so.
> > 
> > There end up to be a *lot* of SBC's out there, but specifically, I'm
> > thinking about some like:
> > Raspberry Pi 2 Banana pi Beaglebone Black Hummingboard
> > 
> > One of these with a solid state drive (I assume that's what SATA means
> > in the specs of all these things....a drive connector....I'm way behind
> > on my acroynyms and still don't know what DPMI stands for w/o a look at
> > a search engine).
> > 
> > Any comments?
> > 
> > pH
> 
> The main purpose of such devices, at least for most folks, is to provide 
> a system with access to the I/O pins.

Yes indeed. Devices like the Ardunio family and Raspberry Pi family are mostly
geared to home grown 'smart' devices, including robotics, interactive artwork,
and your classic 'better mousetrap', for all sorts of definations of
'mousetrap'... They are being used in the classroom (at many levels!) to teach
electronics, robotics, automation, and computer programming. Modern desktop
computers are a long way from Kim-1s and S-100 machines (eg Altair 8800) and
have become closed machines suitable for boring stuff like word processing and
E-mail... These new SBCs are something of a return to those (fun) days, but
with a much more modern system and a more accessable development environment.

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Any single board computers ready for prime time? pureheart@pacbell.net - 2015-07-19 10:54 -0700
  Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-07-19 14:00 -0500
  Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2015-07-19 12:27 -0700
  Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2015-07-19 21:14 +0000
    Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-07-19 18:21 -0500
      Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2015-07-20 05:15 +0200
        Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-07-20 12:54 -0400
          Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-07-20 12:28 -0500
            Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-07-20 13:44 -0400
              Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-07-20 17:03 -0500
                Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-21 00:28 +0100
    Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2015-07-20 07:55 +0200
  Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-07-20 09:12 +0000
    Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? pureheart@pacbell.net - 2015-07-20 13:48 -0700
      Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2015-07-20 21:35 +0000
      Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-07-20 17:03 -0500
        Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-21 00:30 +0100
          Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-07-20 20:12 -0500
        Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-08-07 12:07 +0000
        Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? pureheart@pacbell.net - 2015-08-14 21:26 -0700
          Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-08-15 08:21 -0500

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