1 Jul
2016
1 Jul
'16
11:48 a.m.
On 2016-07-01 2:39 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
Or, for free, a dumpster LCD. I find working ones discarded regularly,
and 90% of the non-working ones are just bad inverter caps ($2 worth).
--Toby
On Jul 1, 2016, at 2:33 PM, Chuck Guzis
<cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 07/01/2016 11:10 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Of course, if your needs are basic, an old CRT for a few dollars will serve just fine.
As I understand it, the Raspberry Pi is not that
far off (and before
it, the ZX Spectrum). But then, there are half a dozen models of
Raspberry Pi, even excluding the Pi Zero.
...and numerous clones. This email is being run through a server
running Ubuntu on a headless Orange Pi PC. At $15, I'll probably buy a
few more.
We're entering another interesting period of time. For those who want a
desktop PC to read email and surf the web, the display could well turn
out to be the most expensive component by far. paul