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The Raspberry PI is the Amiga of our era.
by ethanpil 11y ago
The Raspberry PI is the Amiga of our era.
- gnrme 11y agoI see the Pi as more like a Spectrum. The Amiga of our era is, well, Apple. Yet Apple seems to have lost focus on desktop users.
- walkingolof 11y agoApple does in no way capture the imagination like the Amiga did in the 80s, for most people it was the first interaction with a "real" computer, pure magic. Apple is just more of the same.
- icedchai 11y agoThere's no Amiga of our era. When I got my Amiga 500 in 1988, I was blown away: My jaw literally dropped. This was the future, years ahead of schedule. Apple has had some awesome, amazing products, yeah. But it's all incremental.
- Fjolsvith 11y agoI was an electronic tech in the air force back then and a buddy and I disassembled a couple of Sony laser disc players for the lasers. We got a pair of servos and created a 2 way mirror deflection device. We used the STEREO output of an Amiga 500's audio to control the servos' deflection, one channel for each servo/direction. With a little programming, we were able to "paint" a picture on the wall with the laser.