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posted by martyb on Friday September 09 2016, @07:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the 10-meters? dept.

The Raspberry Pi has sold 10 million units - continuing its success as the most popular British computer ever.

The computer, about the same size as a credit card, was first released in 2012 and is widely used as an educational tool for programming.

However, it can also be used for many practical purposes such as streaming music to several devices in a house.

A new starter kit for Raspberry Pi, including a keyboard and mouse, has been released to celebrate the success.

The kit also includes an SD storage card, official case, power supply, HDMI cable, mouse, keyboard and guidebook - it costs £99 plus VAT and will be available in the coming weeks.

Congratulations and thanks to Eben Upton and the Raspberry Pi Foundation for getting a whole new generation of kids interested in computing and reigniting passion for technology among old curmudgeonly techies.

Also reported here.


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  • (Score: 2) by theluggage on Friday September 09 2016, @05:18PM

    by theluggage (1797) on Friday September 09 2016, @05:18PM (#399706)

    Here's a Z80 kit for ~90$

    I know its a nerd project for nerds to do so that they've done it, and I salute that, but for maximum amusement, scroll down to the bit about the serial terminal board that adds a video & keyboard to the (serial only) Z80 board... yes folks, its done by plugging in a Raspberry Pi Zero (which could probably emulate the Z80 faster than the real thing runs)... and I bet it still works out far cheaper than adding a "proper" (?) video/keyboard interface.

    In electronics, volume production is everything...

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  • (Score: 2) by tibman on Friday September 09 2016, @05:27PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 09 2016, @05:27PM (#399717)

    lol! Retrocomputing, where your decoding logic is a microprocessor that is 100x faster than your main CPU.

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