Raspberry pi on sale.

[mjnurney]

A mini computer that aims to get a new generation of children programming and writing software has been launched in the UK - with intial interest crashing the manufacturer's website.
Called the Raspberry Pi and costing just £22, the machine has been created by a research team of volunteers in the UK.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK charity that claims it wants to encourage school children to learn programming skills and write software.

Sir Clive Sinclair's ZX Spectrum, Lord Alan Sugar's Commodore 64 and the BBC Micro machines made computing accessible to children in the 80s and sparked a wave of young bedroom software developers.
A mini computer that aims to get a new generation of children programming and writing software has been launched in the UK - with intial interest crashing the manufacturer's website.

Called the Raspberry Pi and costing just £22, the machine has been created by a research team of volunteers in the UK.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK charity that claims it wants to encourage school children to learn programming skills and write software.



Source: sky news

On sale from uk.

Farnell & RS components

 

[tokyoracer]

Lord Alan Sugar's Commodore 64

Wow he had a C64?! A traitor of his own company!

 

[mjnurney]

Yep I noticed that ... That's how sky news have wrote it

 

[moijk]

I would have ordered a bunch if I could. but I can't. not that I have any rush, I don't have time to play with them for a while.

 

[Bad_Ad84]

Mine is due at the end of March.

Sold out pretty quick and brought down farnell and rs's websites

 

[Justin]

i'm still in shock over Lord Sugar's C64!!!

 

[FOL]

i'm still in shock over Lord Sugar's C64!!!

Someone needs to be sacked over that, thats very stupid mistake to make and on a major news network.
Bet the reporters only 20 and doesnt have a clue on what a dragon32 is, .

 

[roberthazelby]

Looks like the first batch of units went almost immediately.

Still, a nice article about the demand here:

http://www.osnews.com/story/25661/Raspberry_Pi_launch_turns_into_frenzy

 

[mjnurney]

I'll order one tonight if possible ..

 

[roberthazelby]

I'll order one tonight if possible ..

I think you'll be pre-ordering. Looks like the first batch went early this morning.

 

[mjnurney]

That's ok I don't mind ... I need to learn how to program it anyway

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One in eBay already at a greatly increased price..

 

[Bad_Ad84]

The guy on ebay was selling them minutes after they went up on farnell.

Farnell didnt make it clear it was 1 per customer. I suspect that guy has placed an order for 50 and doesnt realise he wont get them =/

 

[commodorejohn]

Graaah, all that waiting and I'm asleep when they finally launch it... :/

 

[xc8]

farnell (UK) was real fscked up today.... I tried to order one (around 6h05) and the dammit thing could not be added to the basket (already customer on them) as I got an error "there is no price for this item" then the site went up/down due to ddos...
Interestingly, my brother in down under, could buy it from the au site...

nevermind.. on pre-order now (waiting the RISCOS port too)

 

[morcar]

This would be interesting to build it into a mini arcade cab

I might be getting one just for the hell of it

 

[AmiNeo]

I was going to go on the comments section and show the author up on their poor research skills but after noticing you have to sign up I changed my mind. I dont want yet another account somewhere on the web i'll probably never use again... :roll:

 

[morcar]

My only argument is why the hell would they pick linux. Its the most unfriendly OS ever and should be fired from a big cannon.

I wouldnt have minded the whole package being a bit more expensive as long as they had a decent OS to ship with it and i mean one of there own.

If they want people to learn to program then get an OS thats friendly for gods sake.

 

[TheCorfiot]

Pre-ordered my Model B

TC

 

[commodorejohn]

My only argument is why the hell would they pick linux. Its the most unfriendly OS ever and should be fired from a big cannon.

I wouldnt have minded the whole package being a bit more expensive as long as they had a decent OS to ship with it and i mean one of there own.

If they want people to learn to program then get an OS thats friendly for gods sake.

They picked it 'cause it's free, I'm sure. Pretty big point in its favor when the goal is to sell these things for $25-35.

That said, I completely agree (and, IIRC, some of the Pi people themselves have suggested it may not be the ultimate number-one pick for the thing so much as a stopgap so there's some software.)

 

[moijk]

My only argument is why the hell would they pick linux. Its the most unfriendly OS ever and should be fired from a big cannon.

I wouldnt have minded the whole package being a bit more expensive as long as they had a decent OS to ship with it and i mean one of there own.

If they want people to learn to program then get an OS thats friendly for gods sake.

As someone who learned computers by peeking and poking into memory adresses, I highly doubt the student that finds linux unfriendly is any viable material for future computer science studies.