22-07-2012, 07:59 AM
I'm with Alan.
The Pi may be cheap but when the cost of the other bits you need to do anything with it are added on the total is going to be more than a secondhand conventional system which will just work without needing a lot of messing about.
I dare say it will have specialist uses but the idea of a "Computer" for thirty quid is the veriest b/s.
As for Amstard, all I can say is that my 1989 vintage PC1512 was still going until I retried it two years ago.
- Joe
The Pi may be cheap but when the cost of the other bits you need to do anything with it are added on the total is going to be more than a secondhand conventional system which will just work without needing a lot of messing about.
I dare say it will have specialist uses but the idea of a "Computer" for thirty quid is the veriest b/s.
As for Amstard, all I can say is that my 1989 vintage PC1512 was still going until I retried it two years ago.
- Joe
