[HN Gopher] Computers Built to Last
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       Computers Built to Last
        
       Author : ecliptik
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2022-01-03 05:53 UTC (17 hours ago)
        
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       | 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.
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       | The hardware is wonderfully documented and easy to repair. My
       | Amiga has been running for a quarter of a century now.
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       | 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?
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         | 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.
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       | Because you need a user base to make the software carry itself.
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       | 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.
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       | 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:
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       | http://move.rupy.se/file/pi_4.jpg
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       | I recently found this case, but it's still in the mail:
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       | https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z6FYHCH
        
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