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		meaty on Jan 30, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Giving Will Provide 15,000 Raspberry Pi's t... Nice - I remember the 380z. Had a bus which was a simple IDC ribbon cable, weighed a ton and sort of barely coped with CP/M.

Zenst on Jan 30, 2013 [–]

Yip they were well built. Apparently if you entered the front panel (ctrl+F iirc you got a hex debugger) you could single step thru the machine code, now if your did that for the graphic panel part you could blow the screen -- luckily this did not get learned from expereience.

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