Date   : Mon, 25 Jul 2011 23:44:57
From   : mfirth@... (Michael Firth)
Subject: [BeebSoc] Re: Risc PC (Was 'Minitel in France')

On 25 Jul 2011,@22:38, Rick Murray <heyrick.beebsoc@...> wrote:

> On 25/07/2011 09:37, Michael Firth wrote:
> 
>> Wow. And I thought the Beagleboard was cool.
> 
> ;-)
> 
> 
>> Or do you think they're from the "it has an office suite, what
>> more do you need?" school of computer education?
> 
> Price in dollars. They only had the Apple ][ over there, which is like
a Beeb with all the fun taken out. [*]
> 
> 
For once Wikipedia gives more useful information than the actual website:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

A UK registered charity, based out of Cambridge, founded by David Braben...

I think my statement might have been rather silly :-)

I do wish these guys luck, though think a 32-bit ARM system running Linux
may be a bit complex for some of their aims.

Regards

Michael