Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!nuzba.szn.dk!pnx.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: David Cantrell Newsgroups: comp.sys.amstrad.8bit Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:52:38 +0000 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <20120109125238.GD28149@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk> References: <8458fd55-9286-44c6-b8ff-85988fcd2695@v24g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net juUoJR+mCQdFEoJtfFHYpg9J9EKXzRQsfvh/xBNJSv/llGm0g= Cancel-Lock: sha1:FvImM+/akqcX+GaShRnSL6NwKJo= Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i (LEO I) X-Rdate: a.d. V Id. Jan. MMDCCLXV AUC X-Sepdate: Mon Sep 6705 11:55:21 UTC 1993 X-If-You-Can-Read-This: you may be annoyed at this header wasting bandwidth Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.amstrad.8bit:65 On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:16:03PM -0000, Brian Watson wrote: > The £16 gets you JUST a motherboard and the bare essential chips. Those "bare essentials" include everything you need for a minimal modern computer. I'll be going for the slightly more expensive version with ethernet built-in though. > Users will need to add a keyboard or some other input device, a monitor > (although a tv can be used as one), and an operating system. We all have keyboards and monitors, and once it's set up and on the network you don't need them. > Even the In/Out pins may require soldering in place, either vertically or > horizontally. For some reason (teaching basic soldering?) this is seen as a > Good Thing that adds versatility. Most people won't use them anyway, as USB and ethernet provide all the I/O most people need. Including experimenters, who can use USB adapters for serial, CANBUS, etc. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive The test of the goodness of a thing is its fitness for use. If it fails on this first test, no amount of ornamentation or finish will make it any better, it will only make it more expensive and foolish. -- Frank Pick, lecture to the Design and Industries Assoc, 1916