RE: [ukha_d] Raspberry Pi - £15 computer

["Alex Monaghan" <ha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glad it's not me, I found the school teachers seemed to have no idea
what
was under the lid of a computer, even A level didn't seem to have any
programming content.

Good to know there were others programming the cassette port of their ZX81,
I had mine able to recognise different sounds and do actions dependant of
the frequency! I initially worked in assembler converting to hex, but then
found myself actually coding directly in hex direct into a hex loader
missing out the assembler stage completely. The joys of looking up the Z80
references to find the number of clock cycles to decide what instruction to
use for optimum performance :-)

This does look an interesting little gizmo though, lots of potential HA use
for a little device like this!

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Vargster
Sent: 16 May 2011 20:43
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Raspberry Pi - =A315 computer

Yes, I've noticed that too... bit of change from Computer Studies, where
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e
real geeks (me included) where programming a ZX81 speech synth, in Z80
machine code, by typing in hex strings (the assembler was too slow), ah
these kids don't know their born, etc, etc...

On the R-Pi front, it'll be interesting to find out the I/O capabilities
(mostly ethernet?) as it'll make a cracking replacement for Arduino type
projects and be much more powerful...

Lee

Interesting point that chap said on the interview too! Back in my day (!!!=
)
> Computer Studies and then Computer Science did actually involve coding
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> getting hardware to 'move'. These days, my Son is doing ITC and at
best h=
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> gets asked to produce a spread sheet with 'Totals' or a powerpoint
> presentation with a few slides. :-(
>
> Wayne
>
>


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