On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 09:31 +0100, Dom wrote: > On 17/10/12 22:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Apologize Pierre, it wasn't intended to capture your thread. > > > > On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 13:56 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> > >> Raspberry Pi is cool (not my cup of tea, but cool nonetheless). It > >> looks like it is selling for 35 USD, which is what I always heard > >> quoted. > > > > I suspect I'm too old and sluggish, when I was young I played with > > hardware and programmed Assembler and unbelievable, even C. Today I > > don't have those abilities anymore. Yes, it's cool, but I suspect I > > wouldn't use it, I would be to lazy to learn, or I would learn and then > > spend more time with Computers, then I really would lose any real world > > social contacts, would feed myself with more junk foot. At some point > > it's better to stop ;). > > You're never too old :-) > > I bought a Raspberry Pi soon after they first came out, and it is great > fun to work on. My C skills are weak, but I've managed to create a few > small apps for it. Also, I used to dabble in ARM assembler back when I > had a BBC Micro, and a little later. I do like the fact that it is > possible to write small native apps to run on the "bare metal" system > without any OS required. > > As for the price being different to the original quotes - the $25 price > is for the "model A" which isn't available yet (due around Christmas, I > believe). The "model B" currently selling has 2 USB ports, compared to > the one port on the A, and the A doesn't have ethernet. Also, current > model Bs now have 512MB of RAM, instead of the original 256MB (I suspect > the model A will have 256MB).
:) So you encourage me to drop social contacts and to eat more junk food ;)? :D Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1350564894.1132.27.camel@localhost.localdomain
