Raspberry Pi

On 2/27/2013 2:35 PM, Tony Duell wrote: 99.9% of the people I know have no idea what happens once the take a phone off the hook, and talk into it. They don't care. People who are using computers like the Pi vs. ones like PC's and laptops are going to follow. They just use them and don't care how they work. That is why 500,000 (if that is accurate) are already sold. I don't think there are half a million people who plan to learn how the arm chip is interfaced thru the 3v gpio. they want to hook it to a tv ,keybard, etc. and just use it. There aren't that many I know who used the 8080 and 8 bit, and on that learned them either. I knew a lot of people who used them and even could mix and match boards, but seldom if ever could tell you what each board really did to implement its purpose, as most on this list could. They got along just fine bumbling along with horrible early spread sheet programs, word processors and terminal emulators to name what I saw a lot of people do. Many that I helped came to me and said "I won't pay what <Wang, IBM, name the dedicated word processor system> wants when I can buy a terminal, <name the 8 bit computer> and a qume (that was what gagged me, I hated daisy wheel printers) and do just fine". Later made some money helping people move off of horrible proprietary typesetter systems they didn't really need, etc. jim