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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- From: "Mark Keates" <mark@mkeates.f9.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:04:31 +0100
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"James Coupe" <james@zephyr.org.uk> wrote in message
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> In message <6172ee17.0107230800.806c967@posting.google.com>, Graham
> <graham@aledrinker.co.uk> writes
> >Assuming that you have been given a Government contract to make sub
> >$300 boxes for poor people to enable the Internet revolution and
> >increase education,etc (a realistic modern aim?) then what would you
> >want?
>
> A clockwork powered computer for the third world.
>
It exists already (although the Dimm version is still expensive,
but the Simm version is $300!)
http://www.uclinux.com/hand-powered_web_server/index.html