It's a simple matter to install raspbian on your raspberry pi, modify it
with Mike Ray's pispeak code, and have a fully operational computer that
(even with a case and battery pack) will still fit nicely in a large
pocket. Of course, keyboards and thigns add to that, I don't carry mine
around, only used a powershot to prove it could be done, but with the case
I have, my pi is about the size of a pack of cards, and I have it hanging
on the wall next to my desk, so it takes up no room at all, and since I
use it as my primary machine, I have plenty of desk space for all those
other computers, (an old slackware machine, a broken display imac, and
boxes and stacks of books/building materials behind it all for building
those diy electronic projects. My desk is full, but it's certainly not
because of the raspberry pi. :)
On Thu, 28 Jul 2016, Shaun Everiss wrote:
You know I have been debating etting a pie.
It can run windows 10 iot (internet of things) core, as well as arch and
other linux distros but I havn't bothered with it.
Every time I start rationalising a computer, a new tablet, I start asking
myself what I want.
To be honest now we have wireless, while it costs a lot, I like the laptop
idea with all the modules round it as I h ave grown up with dos and then
windows.
I do think though that in theory I should get and use a desktop pc,
but immediately dismiss this because of how it fits on my desk.
Fact is I could go either way.
Then again I don't know.
Going back to what you mentioned about making programs though, my first dos
system got a custom job with a programmer friend I knew making up a lot of
the linux programs converting commands such as beep, cp, fl, ls, reboot, rm,
and others to dos for me.
In fact I still have a disk or so with some of these on them.
The physical hard drives, disks etc of all my stuff have deteriated far
beyond their usefull abilities and I have a folder of stuff I run in
dosbox.
With manamon and also other things in my life of late I havn't run things as
much as I would like.
I have tried to run arch on an old machine when I was down for a month
with the flue but once better I never turned it on again and now my linux
install is hosed probably because my computer has lost time again.
From time to time I think I should really reformat and get things fixed
but I've never bothered.
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