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It's probably some variety of lawyer-infested copyright landmine hellscape, but in principle I suspect there's a reasonably sized market for nostalgia-coddling

It's probably some variety of lawyer-infested copyright landmine hellscape, but in principle I suspect there's a reasonably sized market for nostalgia-coddling raspberry pi (or similar) cases. Old nerds have money[1]. :) [1] as one such Nerd of a Certain Age with Disposable Income, my plea would be for an sgi o2 or sun ipx or similar, haha

whiskeytuesday 4y ago
For instance the Pi-dp11 (and 8)[0] [0]https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11 https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11
Y_Y 4y ago
I agree that there is a good market in serving NoaCAwDIs like us. There are definitely a few products available in this niche already, e.g. https://boingboing.net/2016/09/07/retroconnector-makes-tiny-repl.html https://boingboing.net/2016/09/07/retroconnector-makes-tiny-... https://shop.minimuseum.com/products/first-super-computer?variant=32325460426835 https://shop.minimuseum.com/products/first-super-computer?va...
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thwllms 4y ago
I'd certainly pay money for a Packard Bell Legend or early-90's IBM case.
TheOtherHobbes 4y ago
300Mhz SGI o2: ~650 Vax MIPS Rpi 3: ~6000 Vax MIPS You might think the Pi would lag on FP but... o2: 131MFlops Rpi 3: ~180 MFlops So basically a Pi is better than an o2. And it's the size of a credit card. And mostly used for toy projects.
- volkadav 4y ago
  Yeah, definitely :) It was kind of a bittersweet moment when I realized that all the gear I lusted after as a youth can now be outperformed on basically every axis by something that costs less than $40 (if you can find one!) and comparatively sips power. So if I could get a case that scratched the nostalgia itch a bit while having modern compute innards, that'd be grand. (Also, I suspect most of us are more nostalgic for the hardware than irix 6.2 or solaris 2.6 or whatever similar vintages of proprietary unix.)
- hulitu 4y ago
  > So basically a Pi is better than an o2. And it's the size of a credit card. From HW capabilities, maybe (don't know how I/O compares), but from SW point of view PI is much worse. There is so much bloat in today's SW.

whiskeytuesday 4y ago

For instance the Pi-dp11 (and 8)[0] [0]https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11 https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11

Y_Y 4y ago

I agree that there is a good market in serving NoaCAwDIs like us. There are definitely a few products available in this niche already, e.g. https://boingboing.net/2016/09/07/retroconnector-makes-tiny-repl.html https://boingboing.net/2016/09/07/retroconnector-makes-tiny-... https://shop.minimuseum.com/products/first-super-computer?variant=32325460426835 https://shop.minimuseum.com/products/first-super-computer?va...

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thwllms 4y ago

I'd certainly pay money for a Packard Bell Legend or early-90's IBM case.

TheOtherHobbes 4y ago

300Mhz SGI o2: ~650 Vax MIPS Rpi 3: ~6000 Vax MIPS You might think the Pi would lag on FP but... o2: 131MFlops Rpi 3: ~180 MFlops So basically a Pi is better than an o2. And it's the size of a credit card. And mostly used for toy projects.

volkadav 4y ago
Yeah, definitely :) It was kind of a bittersweet moment when I realized that all the gear I lusted after as a youth can now be outperformed on basically every axis by something that costs less than $40 (if you can find one!) and comparatively sips power. So if I could get a case that scratched the nostalgia itch a bit while having modern compute innards, that'd be grand. (Also, I suspect most of us are more nostalgic for the hardware than irix 6.2 or solaris 2.6 or whatever similar vintages of proprietary unix.)
hulitu 4y ago
> So basically a Pi is better than an o2. And it's the size of a credit card. From HW capabilities, maybe (don't know how I/O compares), but from SW point of view PI is much worse. There is so much bloat in today's SW.