• TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        9 months ago

        The SheevaPlug was the OG Raspberry Pi released years before the Raspberry Pi that nobody cared about because there wasn’t a media hype around it.

        Now the interesting part is: it included an ARM CPU @ 1.2 GHz and it was released in 2009 with dedicated Gigabit ethernet plus another isolated USB chip. Note that the Raspberry Pi was released years later, in 2012, with a 100M ethernet + USB shared chip that was total garbage. They kept selling that garbage until 2019 with the release of the Raspberry Pi 4 that finally came with Gigabit.

        Another interesting fact about the SheevaPlug is that there was a variant with an eSATA port once again totally obliterating the Raspberry Pi 4 and making it the perfect low power system for a NAS at the time.

    • Menteros@lemm.ee
      32·
      9 months ago

      Wow I forgot about those. Always wanted one but too expensive for me at the time.

      • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        I know the feeling, I also had to pay extra customs taxes because I’m in Europa and it was sold by an US company. :(

  • init@lemmy.ml
    131·
    9 months ago

    Didn’t we learn our lesson 24 years ago with Y2K!?

    EDIT: To be clear, I was being facetious. I remember my parents and father freaking out about this when I was in middle school. I would have thought we got this taken care of permanently already

    • BlanK0@lemmy.mlOP
      81·
      9 months ago

      The data lost that occurred due to the lack of differentiation between year 1900 and 2000 on calendar systems of the older computers?

    • Bene7rddso@feddit.de
      7·
      9 months ago

      This mistake was made in the 70s when time was added to UNIX (or maybe already with Multics, idk)