News: My First Time Trying Raspberry Pi

First time trying Raspberry Pi.

When it was time to open the Raspberry Pi, the first thing that stood out was the enclosure. It’s a wood-colored box a couple sizes up from an Altoids tin. It does not have a VGA port but only HDMI and RCA ports. We happened to have a TV around with an RCA port. When I first saw saw the menu in text that was difficult to read it reminded me of my first real computer, which had a CGA card. I instantly had the feeling Raspberry Pi was in some ways like the computer my parents paid thousands of dollars for in the 80s. “Look it has an audio port,” I told a software engineer, “If they were going to put a ‘sound card’ on the motherboard, they should have put an audio input port too.” Then I left the 80s and realized it has USB ports.

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