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).
-- Dom