What a great little idea!

[Tank]

Foundation readies $25 computer to seed tech talents

(PhysOrg.com) -- A $25 computer targeted to help young people learn about computers beyond uploading pics and downloading documents is about to start volume-production in January. The Raspberry Pi project, a UK-based foundation, will place the computer by the same name, Raspberry Pi, on general sale. The principle behind the project is that students today may know how to create documents and presentations but far less about fundamental systems architecture and systems development.

Raspberry Pi wants to inspire young people to start technology careers.

User-focused lessons on how to write letters or enter data on Excel spreadsheets may be fine but the devices will place students on a learning and discovery track closer to computer science than end-user skills. The students would receive these credit-card sized computers and courses would be structured around their use.

A posting on the Raspberry Pi blog this week revealed the announcement that the computers are almost ready, seen as good news by many who have been watching for progress updates...

I still have the 8085 based computer that I used to learn to program in machine code! Goshit was fun making those 8 LEDs flash on and off!

[The Magic Pudding]

There's a lot of full size usable stuff that gets dumped, you can't give away a CRT monitor.

[xSilverPhinx]

I still have the 8085 based computer that I used to learn to program in machine code! Goshit was fun making those 8 LEDs flash on and off!

It's interesting to hear my mother telling stories of her first encounter with computers.

Did you think that your old machine had any future potential?

[Tank]

I still have the 8085 based computer that I used to learn to program in machine code! Goshit was fun making those 8 LEDs flash on and off!

It's interesting to hear my mother telling stories of her first encounter with computers.

Did you think that your old machine had any future potential?

Very much so. The technology wave that stared with the transistor is a later version of the creation of the stream engine. What steam did for the physical world of humankind the transistor has done for the intellectual world of humankind. Where it will lead and and how far it will go is the stuff of science fiction.

[Crocoduck]

There's a lot of full size usable stuff that gets dumped, you can't give away a CRT monitor.

You don't live in a country with gun toten rednecks. Round here you just set it by the road with a sign that says "Free target" and it'll be gone in an hour.