[GEM Development] Raspberry-Pi Computer Details

[Thomas Clayton]

GREATLY surprised at the quick and numerous responses to my little notice!

Pardon me, as someone on the other side of "the pond", could explain WHO R.S. is  - and Farnell?

(Apparently the latter should be addressed as "infernal Farnell"?)

IF R.S. is the maker, pardon my ignorance. (YES! I really CAN read - just didn't bother to - yet.) Farnell, a package delivery service?, like UPS and FedEx in the USA?

Lastly, there is a multi-pin header on the board. For WHAT is it there to do?
Thanks In Advance.


Now, more interestingly to me, there HAD BEEN (beginning development to a "desktop" window system; NO app.s) a version of GEOS specifically for the ARM processor ('of the day') back in the late 1990's. (Nokia PIM? device was (did?) to run this.) I have NO idea whether the code still exists NOR who has "rights" to it. I don't know IF a "DOS" was built-in or whether everything was in ROM. This subject is more appropriate for the Yahoo! GEOS-Talk list but I thought I'd mention it.

Thomas Clayton


--- On Tue, 5/8/12, Ben A L Jemmett <ben at jemmett.me.uk> wrote:

> From: Ben A L Jemmett <ben at jemmett.me.uk>
> Subject: Re: [GEM Development] Raspberry-Pi Computer Details
> To: "'GEM Development'" <gem-dev at simpits.org>
> Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 12:03 PM
> > Ok it's official.  You
> suck. :)
> 
> I've been called worse by better ;)  (I'm absolutely
> astounded to have got
> one of the first 10,000 units -- by the time I managed to
> actually place my
> order on launch day I figured I'd be somewhere well down the
> line, given
> that I'd been trying to get Farnell's site to pay attention
> to me on and off
> all morning before it finally let me log in and stick the
> item number in the
> 'quick order on account' box...)
> 
> > Those useless bastards at RS won't even let me order
> yet!
> 
> To be honest, my above comment notwithstanding, RS seem to
> be handling this
> better overall from a keeping-people-informed point of view
> -- they started
> out with the "get in line, we'll contact you when we have
> units to ship"
> schtick and true to their word have been inviting people to
> actually place
> orders as and when stock arrived.  Farnell seem to have
> gone for more of an
> every-man-for-himself approach before finally realising this
> was an issue
> and preventing further pre-orders / only allowing
> 'expressions of interest'.
> Once the initial rush settles down I imagine they'll be much
> of a muchness.
> 
> I'm waiting to see further stats from both disties, just out
> of morbid
> curiousity -- so far the closest to hard figures seems to be
> that they have
> well over 100,000 pre-orders/registrations of interest
> each.  RS claim the
> 700 units they received in their first shipment covered
> orders placed up to
> 6.01 a.m. on launch day...
> 
> Regards,
> Ben A L Jemmett.
> http://flatpack.microwavepizza.co.uk/ 
> 
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