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Re: blog via finger

From	Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: blog via finger
Date	2026-06-12 00:10 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<110fios$1r13s$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:09:51 -0000 (UTC), Koen Martens wrote:

> Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:35:30 -0700, Daniel wrote:
>>>
>>> I spent some time investigating whether I ought to restore an old
>>> Tandy terminal or a model 4, but, thought I'd rather use something
>>> modern like a RC2014 rig but running CP/M for its low power
>>> consumption.
>>
>> The Raspberry Pi seems to be the most popular solution for this
>> sort of application: powerful enough to emulate any of those old
>> machines and their OSes, yet consuming much less power than any of
>> them, and of course better supported with more up-to-date tools and
>> documentation. And user/developer community!
>
> A Raspberry PI is just a modern linux system, and comes with all the
> annoyances of modern software that is abstractions on top of
> abstractions on top of abstractions on top of ... to the point that
> no-one knows what's going on anymore and stuff breaks all the time.

It’s not a Windows system -- it’s not a black box, so don’t treat it
like one. Linux has inbuilt tools so you can diagnose problems and fix
them -- there is no big sticker across the cover saying “NO
USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE”. It’s designed for tinkering. If you’re
a retrocomputing enthusiast, you’re probably already a hardware
tinkerer, but perhaps you’re not accustomed to thinking of software
the same way?

Running a Linux system like a Raspberry Pi is much less work (and less
money spent) than trying to keep old authentic hardware running.

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blog via finger Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2026-06-08 18:00 -0700
  Re: blog via finger Daniel Cerqueira <dan.list@lispclub.com> - 2026-06-09 09:50 +0100
  Re: blog via finger gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) - 2026-06-09 09:31 +0000
  Re: blog via finger "Kurt Weiske" <kurt.weiske@realitycheckbbs.org.remove-5g5-this> - 2026-06-09 07:32 -0700
    Re: blog via finger Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2026-06-09 12:02 -0700
      Re: blog via finger "Kurt Weiske" <kurt.weiske@realitycheckbbs.org.remove-vti-this> - 2026-06-10 06:58 -0700
        Re: blog via finger Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2026-06-10 11:35 -0700
          Re: blog via finger Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-10 23:51 +0000
            Re: blog via finger gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) - 2026-06-11 11:09 +0000
              Re: blog via finger Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-06-11 19:02 +0000
                Re: blog via finger Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-06-12 13:44 -0400
                Re: blog via finger Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-06-12 18:52 +0000
                Re: blog via finger drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2026-06-12 19:54 +0000
                Re: blog via finger Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-14 15:36 +0100
                Re: blog via finger gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) - 2026-06-13 06:34 +0000
                Re: blog via finger Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-14 15:39 +0100
                Re: blog via finger Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-14 15:30 +0100
              Re: blog via finger Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-12 00:10 +0000
                Re: blog via finger gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) - 2026-06-12 15:20 +0000
                Re: blog via finger Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-12 23:50 +0000
                Re: blog via finger scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-06-13 14:46 +0000
                Re: blog via finger Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-06-14 13:27 -0400
                Re: blog via finger Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-14 23:48 +0000
                Re: blog via finger "Kurt Weiske" <kurt.weiske@realitycheckbbs.org.remove-25-this> - 2026-06-15 07:10 -0700
                Re: blog via finger John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-06-15 08:17 -0700
                Re: blog via finger mechanicjay@sol.smbfc.net (Mechanicjay) - 2026-06-13 01:09 +0000
                Re: blog via finger Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-14 15:52 +0100
                Re: blog via finger Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-14 15:49 +0100
                Re: blog via finger gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) - 2026-06-14 16:21 +0000
        Re: blog via finger Thomas Prufer <prufer.public@mnet-online.de.invalid> - 2026-06-11 07:50 +0200

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