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Funny how the tiny BeagleBone Black they're using to restore the Alto has more computing power in it than the Alto itself.
by equalunique 10y ago
Funny how the tiny BeagleBone Black they're using to restore the Alto has more computing power in it than the Alto itself.
- sixothree 10y agoI have a Commodore Pet 8032 which is one of the most powerful pet machines. I found an ethernet adapter for it. I believe the microcontroller on the enthernet adapter has more computing power than the computer it connects it to. Still though it's cool as all heck.
- cmrdporcupine 10y agoIn the Atari ST community there's a hard drive / floppy emulator and network interface called CosmosEx that uses a Raspbery Pi board internally. The Pi has _far_ more CPU horsepower than the 8mhz 68000 ST itself.
- __d 10y agoMy first programming job was writing a real estate database system for that beast. With the twin-floppy expansion box. Built like a truck, and thankfully a much better keyboard than the PET.
- digi_owl 10y agoAnd sadly the BBB will be much harder to restore than the Alto.