Re: [Sheflug] Raspberry Pi

[Laurence Horrocks-Barlow <laurence@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/03/12 13:20, Andrew Richards wrote:
> On Thursday 01 March 2012 12:58:05 Laurence Horrocks-Barlow wrote:
> > On 01/03/12 12:13, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/74534.html
> > >
> > > Hot cakes moving off the shelf wouldn't begin to describe what's
> > > happening with this.  It's like the Asus EeePC 701 all over again...
> > >
> > > "  Frantic buyers cleaned out the shelves of two UK retailers offering
> > > a small US$35 Linux computer from the Raspberry Pi Foundation.  "
> > They should be lovely pieces of computing and most of the LUG's I'm on
> > are chatting away about possible uses for them.
> >
> > Something that might also intrest the group is the Candy Stick computer
> > - http://store.cstick.com (pointed out on the Shropshire LUG).
> >
> > Did anyone manage to snag one?
> Yes - from Farnell (one of the 2 suppliers) - their site was running like a
> dog but I kept at it yesterday and eventually succeeded. It should be
> delivered mid-March, looks fun, love the 'model A, model B' reference to the
> old BBC micro.
>
> cheers,
>
> Andrew.
Speaking of BBC micro's there was a teenie weenie article about their 
come back in MicroMart this week - http://go.qsplace.co.uk/bbcm

-- Lauz

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