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Old RPI

 

I was going through a box and I found these museum pieces:

I remember that I bought them for $5-$10 each and put them away and never used them. I think that they are the original Raspberry Pi models. Under the RPI logo, it just says Raspberry Pi (c)2011.12 They use the SD card, not the micro version, the size of the adapters that we use today. Are they still useful today? Like Ham Clock or weather or something like that??
 

still usable

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On Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 09:08:32 PM EDT, Aaron K5ATG via groups.io <k5atg@...> wrote:


I was going through a box and I found these museum pieces:

I remember that I bought them for $5-$10 each and put them away and never used them. I think that they are the original Raspberry Pi models. Under the RPI logo, it just says Raspberry Pi (c)2011.12 They use the SD card, not the micro version, the size of the adapters that we use today. Are they still useful today? Like Ham Clock or weather or something like that??

 

What OS would work on it??
 

Probably ant 32 bit ARM Linux distro.
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On 14/09/2022 21:35 EDT Aaron K5ATG via groups.io <k5atg@...> wrote:


What OS would work on it?
 

I have an original model A and Model B!

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On Sep 14, 2022, at 18:08, "Aaron K5ATG via " <yahoo.com@groups.io target=_blank>[email protected]> wrote:

I was going through a box and I found these museum pieces:

I remember that I bought them for $5-$10 each and put them away and never used them. I think that they are the original Raspberry Pi models. Under the RPI logo, it just says Raspberry Pi (c)2011.12 They use the SD card, not the micro version, the size of the adapters that we use today. Are they still useful today? Like Ham Clock or weather or something like that??

 

They are backwards compatible.? Latest bullseye runs on both my oldies

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Where do I find Bullseye?

What kind of projects are they good for?
 

Bullseye is the latest version of PiOS from the raspberry site. Buster, the previous version, is labeled Buster or Legacy. Can't remember which

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On Sep 14, 2022, at 19:06, "Aaron K5ATG via " <yahoo.com@groups.io target=_blank>[email protected]> wrote:

Where do I find Bullseye?

What kind of projects are they good for?

 

Hi Aaron,

I still have my original Pi and it still works. Keep in mind the limited resources. Mine will try to do multitasking but it runs out of gas for bloatware. Mine didn't do very well with sound card applications - heavy DSP processing. I used it with a an IRC client on the web to have live chat with other technical folk while running a second (lightweight) app or two. Logging is a good application. Command line interface (CLI) works very well - even for multitasking. Open more than one terminal. The 'latest, greatest razzle-dazzle' web browser will crawl along (or fail) but the lighter browsers work okay on that old pi. I sometimes use it for a journal or other writing projects.

Since you already have them you have nothing to lose putting them to work.

73,

Bill KU8H

bark less - wag more

On 9/14/22 21:08, Aaron K5ATG via groups.io wrote:
I was going through a box and I found these museum pieces:

I remember that I bought them for $5-$10 each and put them away and never used them. I think that they are the original Raspberry Pi models. Under the RPI logo, it just says Raspberry Pi (c)2011.12 They use the SD card, not the micro version, the size of the adapters that we use today. Are they still useful today? Like Ham Clock or weather or something like that?
 

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I have two of those exact units. Mine has HDMI, composite video, 3.5 mm mono audio, Ethernet, 2 USB, and the SD card slot. One of them is configured to block ads on my home network. It does a great job. The other one is just used for experimentation. I have a 4 that mines crypto currency. I have already made $2 since January. Another 4 runs HamPi. The originals are still useful for things that do not require intensive processing, 32 bit only, and without the desktop environment. Still not bad for 11 year old computer technology.

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I have an original model A and Model B!

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On Sep 14, 2022, at 18:08, "Aaron K5ATG via " <yahoo.com@groups.io target=_blank>[email protected]> wrote:

I was going through a box and I found these museum pieces:

I remember that I bought them for $5-$10 each and put them away and never used them. I think that they are the original Raspberry Pi models. Under the RPI logo, it just says Raspberry Pi (c)2011.12 They use the SD card, not the micro version, the size of the adapters that we use today. Are they still useful today? Like Ham Clock or weather or something like that??

Original Raspberry Pi.jpg

 

If nothing else is needed, use one of your older Pi units to run PiHole. I have a RPi Zero W sitting by itself in the shack, connected to only an old cell charger, that strips around 25% of the pop-ups and crap from all the devices on my home network. Pretty easy to set up and works great.

=Vic=
 

On 9/14/2022 10:30 PM, Tom Hyde NK5H wrote:
I have already made $2 since January
And how much did the electricity to do that cost?

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