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| In 1981, there were lots of books about the Zilog Z80 microprocessor, which was introduced in 1976, but this particular book was different....
| Why connect an obsolete 360KB floppy disk drive to a Raspberry Pi? Because it is there, as George Mallory certainly would have said if he ha...
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| Housed inside a keyboard, the Raspberry Pi 400 brings back memories of famous computers from the eighties.