[HN Gopher] Computers Built to Last ___________________________________________________________________ Computers Built to Last Author : ecliptik Score : 23 points Date : 2022-01-03 05:53 UTC (17 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.datagubbe.se) (TXT) w3m dump (www.datagubbe.se) | marttt wrote: | Same article, posted a few hours earlier, discussed here: | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29773407 | zgs wrote: | The HP 35 calculator was introduced in 1972. The early models | aren't quite fifty years old yet, but will be later this year. | Many (most?) of these still work just fine from the mains adaptor | or once you replace the batteries. | johnklos wrote: | We don't think enough about sustainability, about history. The | Amiga uniquely exists as history by itself and lives on as a | platform that eschews multi-gigabyte, multi-gigahertz | requirements, yet can do amazingly modern things. | | The hardware is wonderfully documented and easy to repair. My | Amiga has been running for a quarter of a century now. | | http://lilith.zia.io/ | blippage wrote: | So, it runs a pretty recent version of NetBSD? That's quite | impressive. Isn't that sacrilege, though, not to be running | AmigaOS? | | I did see a YouTube vid last year of an Amiga booting up what I | presume to be an old version of Debian. It got there - | EVENTUALLY - at least proving that AmigaOS was a vastly more | efficient of OS (over Debian, at least). | bullen wrote: | Raspberry 4 is probably the most likely candidate right now. | | Because you need a user base to make the software carry itself. | | Also from a power point of view 7W is pretty much what we have to | play with if everyone is going to have one powered on | permanently. | | Get a good case for it so that you can passively cool it and | you're good to go for atleast 100 years if the heatpaste doesn't | dry up: | | http://move.rupy.se/file/pi_4.jpg | | I recently found this case, but it's still in the mail: | | https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z6FYHCH ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-01-03 23:00 UTC)