BS about "changes in cost of cheapest machines" (Was: Raspberry - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

4 Mar 2013

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On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 5:57 PM PST Fred Cisin wrote:

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 It's ZX80 time.
You CAN do wondrous things.
Or, you can bemoan the "need" for fancier crap.

WHY can't they just say, "it's FUN! and you can cobble together the rest
of what you need to make it usable from the crap that is lying around"
And THAT is fun, too! 
 Because it's ideological. Because it's the great great grandson of Acorn (I want
one), it can't just be fun. It *has* to be wondrous, sliced cheese, the missing link,
the Teseract. It *has* to be the life giving manna distributed by angels. All dat.
  Give him some credit though. He kind of summed it up appropriately - OLPC. STAMP,
Arduino, TI Launchpad, Rpi, ... next. It is a learning tool. It is fun. It may even be
awfully useful. It just ain't all dat.