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Re:I Wrote This on a 30-Year-Old Computer by II2II on Sunday June 16, 2019 @07:44PM (#20198653)
The Raspberry Pi offers a tonne more since it is trying to be everything to everyone, at least in the domain of computer education. I agree that this obscures the obvious place to start, yet it also has some benefits. For example, there are Python libraries for GPIO. While interfacing electronics projects with a 1980's vintage computer was certainly possible, it did not afford such ease.

On the flip side is RISC OS on the Raspberry Pi. The OS is pretty much stuck in the 1990's with some throwbacks to the 1980's. For example: it is easy to drop into BASIC, then write programs as you would in the early days of personal computers.

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Re:I Wrote This on a 30-Year-Old Computer by ohithereyou on Monday June 17, 2019 @08:44AM (#20202311)
>While interfacing electronics projects with a 1980's vintage computer was certainly possible, it did not afford such ease.

One of my favorite examples of interfacing 1980s micros with electronics is 8 Bit Guy's[0] series on interfacing with LCD character with the Commodore 64's user port[1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/adric22

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV8FbwobrKY

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Re:I Wrote This on a 30-Year-Old Computer by taeric on Sunday June 16, 2019 @08:07PM (#20198747)
My point of bringing in the pi was that it feels closest to the computers I had growing up. Tinkering was and is the point. Most computing devices, that is not the case.
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