From: nospam.Mike.Powell@f1.n770.z21615.fidonet.org   
      
   > More than that, it keeps alive some of the original spirit that has gone   
   > from the Microsoft/Apple market: early PCs were hackable to some extent by   
   > users (remember when you got BIOS listings in the Technical Manuals?), but   
   > current proprietary machines effectively have a big sign across them   
   > saying "No User-Serviceable Parts Inside" (and this applies to both   
   > hardware and software).   
      
   > Conversely, the Linux-running Raspberry Pi invites you to open it up and   
   > mess around, both in terms of hardware and software. And this is   
   > deliberate, by design.   
      
   This is some of the reason I have been drawn to sbc computing over the past   
   few years.  Adding things to them is not quite like the old "open the case   
   and slide a new card in" procedure, but the ability to tinker is still   
   certainly there.   
      
      
    * SLMR 2.1a * If you chose not to decide, you still have made a choice!   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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