I was thinking something similar - but it should remind you of the BBC Micro Model B. Why? Because that was the ultimate progenitor of all Raspberry Pis but also, more importantly all ARM based devices. Your smart phone is a direct descendant of the greatest of all the 80s microcomputers. This...
Sadly they weren't successful in the US. But they were ubiquitous in British schools in the 80/90s. The BBC Micro was available in two versions at first, the Model A and B which is where the Raspberry Pi names came from originally. Of more significance, the first ARM processor was developed as a kind of maths coprocessor for the Model B. Which led to the Acorn Archimedes, which used the ARM2, then the ARM3 and later ARM250 SOIC. Far more powerful than IBM PCs in terms of MIPS they ran an OS called RISC OS (which you can still download and install on a Pi). And of course ARM chips still power many/most? smartphones, TV stick dongles, routers, printers, etc. So, in a way, if you have a smartphone, you kind of have a BBC Micro in your pocket. Beats a Commodore any day of the week ;-) No offense to Commodore fans, I had a C64 as well - Made in England of course.
[QUOTE="2E0FXZ, post: 5659726, member: 918375"...remind you of the BBC Micro Model B. ...[/QUOTE] I always liked that keyboard! almost as good as the SOL-20 keyboard (10 years earlier). The RPi400 keyboard just hurts to even look at...
You can add another keyboard of your choice. I hear the RPi400 has very nice CPU cooling. The keyboard is a heatsink. I want one, Just for grins.
F4GOH - Anthony Thank you for posting this pot of gold. I was proficient with using Raspberry Pi several years ago. But there is now so much more. Your links are invaluable in getting me up to speed again with all of the new things that can be done. It is almost winter, and with the COVID epidemic, I will soon start my annual "ham season" of building and experimenting. Thanks again. Ken
I had forgotten about the Oric - nice machine! But it is not part of the genesis of the Pi. As I explained above, the ancestry of the Pi and all ARM derived devices ultimately goes back to the BBC/Acorn machines.
What happened to the turtorial part 6? https://hamprojects.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/rpi-part-6-v1.0.pdf Have not been able to download it. Ernie K3VVV
Hello Ernie, When i want to update it, link on QRZ post will be broken, so, Go to my main page and download it. https://hamprojects.wordpress.com/2020/09/06/raspberry-pi-for-ham-radio/ Now tutorial in Spanish for parts 1 to 3 73 Anthony
