what's vintage? was Re: Latest addition: A bondi-blue iMac

[Toby Thain]

On 2016-07-01 2:39 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
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>> On Jul 1, 2016, at 2:33 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
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>> On 07/01/2016 11:10 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> ...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.
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>> 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.
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> Of course, if your needs are basic, an old CRT for a few dollars will serve just fine.
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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


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