'We thought we'd sell 1, 000': The inside story of the Raspberry Pi
Interesting read.
From an end-user perspective, the wait to get one after ordering was agonizing. It's now generally available, even locally, which is great.
Some have commented on the non-openness of some of the firmware bits in the GPU and register-level docs of the ARM architecture, but by and large, it was and still is, a great hit. Still making thousands a day. The last quote was fun - sounds like some old CP/M machines hanging around? :-) "I would like there to be some engineers who got their start with the Pi, who have a dusty old Pi in the attic that they will get down one day to see if it still works and reminisce about it," Upton said. Dan. On 13-01-17 04:17 PM, Bill Reid wrote:
http://www.zdnet.com/we-thought-wed-sell-1000-the-inside-story-of-the-raspbe...
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Now I'm confused -- I sent the following reply to Bill's post about the Pi .. but only the first line of the message was posted :-( Good thing I checked the list to confirm it got published (er: auto-edited I guess) :-( Kevin had indicated he had problems earlier as well with receiving postings - maybe we have an issue with the server? Dan. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [RndTbl] 'We thought we'd sell 1, 000': The inside story of the Raspberry Pi Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:06:48 -0600 From: Dan Keizer <dan@keizer.ca> To: roundtable@muug.mb.ca Interesting read.
From an end-user perspective, the wait to get one after ordering was agonizing. It's now generally available, even locally, which is great.
Some have commented on the non-openness of some of the firmware bits in the GPU and register-level docs of the ARM architecture, but by and large, it was and still is, a great hit. Still making thousands a day. The last quote was fun - sounds like some old CP/M machines hanging around? :-) "I would like there to be some engineers who got their start with the Pi, who have a dusty old Pi in the attic that they will get down one day to see if it still works and reminisce about it," Upton said. Dan. On 13-01-17 04:17 PM, Bill Reid wrote:
http://www.zdnet.com/we-thought-wed-sell-1000-the-inside-story-of-the-raspbe...
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OK, so here's a text-only non-mime version of the posting ... something's gotta give here :-) hopefully it will post the full text of the message ... otherwise, we'll try the old-APL way -- make the message one long line on the subject line :-) Dan. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [RndTbl] 'We thought we'd sell 1, 000': The inside story of the Raspberry Pi Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:06:48 -0600 From: Dan Keizer <dan@keizer.ca> To: roundtable@muug.mb.ca Interesting read.
From an end-user perspective, the wait to get one after ordering was agonizing. It's now generally available, even locally, which is great.
Some have commented on the non-openness of some of the firmware bits in the GPU and register-level docs of the ARM architecture, but by and large, it was and still is, a great hit. Still making thousands a day. The last quote was fun - sounds like some old CP/M machines hanging around? :-) "I would like there to be some engineers who got their start with the Pi, who have a dusty old Pi in the attic that they will get down one day to see if it still works and reminisce about it," Upton said. Dan. On 13-01-17 04:17 PM, Bill Reid wrote:
http://www.zdnet.com/we-thought-wed-sell-1000-the-inside-story-of-the-raspbe...
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That is odd. On my end, all three of the messages you sent looked to be complete, multi-line messages in my inbox. But in the mailman archive (http://www.muug.mb.ca/pipermail/roundtable/2013-January/thread.html) all 3 are truncated. I think mailman might be choking on the ">From " at the start of the second paragraph, which it might be taking as the start of another message. The ">" is usually added to lines that start with "From " in the body of the message to prevent the line from being seen as the start of a new message in "mbox" format mailboxes, so if mailman can't cope with that, it's a bit of a problem. As for the Raspberry Pi, considering they underestimated demand by a factor between 100 and 1000, they did a remarkable job of scaling up! Gilles On 18/01/2013 10:11 AM, Dan Keizer wrote:
OK, so here's a text-only non-mime version of the posting ... something's gotta give here :-)
hopefully it will post the full text of the message ... otherwise, we'll try the old-APL way -- make the message one long line on the subject line :-)
Dan.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [RndTbl] 'We thought we'd sell 1, 000': The inside story of the Raspberry Pi Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:06:48 -0600 From: Dan Keizer <dan@keizer.ca> To: roundtable@muug.mb.ca
Interesting read.
From an end-user perspective, the wait to get one after ordering was agonizing. It's now generally available, even locally, which is great.
Some have commented on the non-openness of some of the firmware bits in the GPU and register-level docs of the ARM architecture, but by and large, it was and still is, a great hit. Still making thousands a day.
The last quote was fun - sounds like some old CP/M machines hanging around? :-)
"I would like there to be some engineers who got their start with the Pi, who have a dusty old Pi in the attic that they will get down one day to see if it still works and reminisce about it," Upton said.
Dan.
On 13-01-17 04:17 PM, Bill Reid wrote:
http://www.zdnet.com/we-thought-wed-sell-1000-the-inside-story-of-the-raspbe...
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-- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9 (Canada)
For the (statistical) record and analysis, I did get the whole message the first time. Hartmut Sager On 18 January 2013 10:11, Dan Keizer <dan@keizer.ca> wrote:
OK, so here's a text-only non-mime version of the posting ... something's gotta give here :-)
hopefully it will post the full text of the message ... otherwise, we'll try the old-APL way -- make the message one long line on the subject line :-)
Dan.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [RndTbl] 'We thought we'd sell 1, 000': The inside story of the Raspberry Pi Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:06:48 -0600 From: Dan Keizer <dan@keizer.ca> To: roundtable@muug.mb.ca
Interesting read.
From an end-user perspective, the wait to get one after ordering was agonizing. It's now generally available, even locally, which is great.
Some have commented on the non-openness of some of the firmware bits in the GPU and register-level docs of the ARM architecture, but by and large, it was and still is, a great hit. Still making thousands a day.
The last quote was fun - sounds like some old CP/M machines hanging around? :-)
"I would like there to be some engineers who got their start with the Pi, who have a dusty old Pi in the attic that they will get down one day to see if it still works and reminisce about it," Upton said.
Dan.
On 13-01-17 04:17 PM, Bill Reid wrote:
http://www.zdnet.com/we-thought-wed-sell-1000-the-inside-story-of-the-raspbe...
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