Raspberry Pi

My Raspberry Pi arrived, complete with T-shirt:

Now back to the days when computing was fun! Next on the shopping list: camera, a few motors, maybe a radio transmitter....

I was going to make a series of unboxing pictures, but there was little packaging and excitement meant that even that didn't last long.... :-)

30 years of the ZX81

Sinclair ZX81: 30 years old tomorrow
All hail the pioneer of UK home computing
By Tony Smith • Get more from this author
4th March 2011 11:45 GMT

Tomorrow, 5 March 2011, marks the 30th anniversary of the arrival of the machine that did more to awaken ordinary Britons to the possibilities offered by home computing: the Sinclair ZX81.


While its successor, the Sinclair Spectrum, got the nation playing computer games, the ZX81 was the tipping point that turned the home computer from nerd hobby into something anyone could buy and use.