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Tiny Technology, (sdf.org), 09/06/2018
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When I was a kid, my mother would drive me around to all of
the antique stores. I absolutely loved looking at the old
trinkets and treasures, and was especially fond of the tiny
collectibles. I eventually bought up a bunch of tiny things,
though I can't recall exactly what they were now.
Tiny technology has always been fascinating to me as well.
The PDA days were a heyday for me, which I enjoyed quite
thoroughly (thanks ebay.) I even had that Fossil Palm
PDA watch, before smart watches were cool. The modern
"Mobile," I will admit, hasn't been quite as fun. I don't
know what was lost, but something was lost, and it never
felt that interesting. Ah well, you win some, you lose
some.
The Raspberry Pi is exceptional I recall before it came out,
everyone thought it would be vaporware. A $25 computer! Yeah
right! Wow, were we ever wrong. Before the Pi, I purchased a
Parallax "Basic Stamp," and programmed up a little project
with it. The Pi has it beat in so many ways, though they are
different...
Anyway, that's a lot to simply say that I've unpacked my Pi3
from storage. This is the one I used to use for my home
gopher server and telnet BBS. It's got a 64GB SD, and it
used to have a 1TB external drive, but I haven't bothered
with that yet. The thing that makes it even more fun for me,
and my memories of tiny collectibles, is the little 3.5" TFT
display (they crappy backup-camera type) and the itty-bitty
keyboard/mouse combo that I have with it. All together it
looks just like a miniature computer- how fun for me.
Maybe I'm odd, but I suppose that's OK.
Now, I just have to figure out what to do with the thing.
I'm not sure I need or want to host a gopher server (I have
5 phlogs in gopher space already, dang it, and that's enough
phlogs for anybody.)
The point is, it's unpacked and setup and working. Let the
fun commence.
