Have you looked at the Raspberry Pi? I'm thinking about finally building one, I want to put it in a 9inch Mac chassis. I've got a 512K I'd gutted for a fish tank but never finished building. Now I want to make it a retro gaming station. I bought a USB to Atari joystick adapter that works a treat. I want to setup port duplicators so everything looks right. The whole computer will run off 5v 2a plus whatever I'll need for a very small LCD monitor. Not the highest horsepower computer around but plenty to run an Atari emulator.
-Curt Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 07:16:12 -0700 From: Jim Cathey <j...@windwireless.net> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: file server Message-ID: <c6a96144-f0a9-11e3-bdfc-000502d9a...@windwireless.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > Processor speed stalled in about 2008, it's impossible to air-cool > silicon over about 3GHz, and the memory access bottleneck hasn't > changed a bit, either. What's more, when your system demands 10x the electrical power to get 2x the speed, and as prices of electricity continue to escalate, people will start to notice! I have. I'm trying to put together a free G4 tower mac as a backup server, even though we have a spare G5 that would do it much easier, because it draws about 40W versus the 250W or so of the G5. The rampant inefficiency of current software is truly disgusting, especially to a guy that knows what the raw hardware is capable of. My now-ancient Pismo laptop is capable of running several full-screen movies at once, horsepower-wise, yet it cannot surf basic web sites anymore. -- Jim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
