Before the Raspberry Pi came out, one cheap and easy way to get GPIO on a computer with a real operating system was to manipulate the pins on an old parallel port, then most commonly used for print…
  • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
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    12 days ago

    This would appear to indicate that someone in charge of product design at Pi HQ is a Gen X-er or Boomer desperate to relive computing history through their own products.

    You didn’t already know that the Raspberry Pi concept was inspired by the BBC Micro from the 80s?