Reply to post: Re: "Developing world - if you were to only have *one* computing device"

PC sales to fall and fall and fall and fall and fall for the next five years

Daniel von Asmuth
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Re: "Developing world - if you were to only have *one* computing device"

Funny: in Holland the entry price for a 'desktop' was about Eur. 1500 in 1980 (not adjusted for inflation), gradually slipped to Eur. 1000 and quickly dropped to around Eur. 500 around 2001 and rose a bit since then. Home computers were cheaper, from Commodore 64 to Nintendo Wii.

$ 150 will buy you a rasperry PI with maybe a second hand keyboard and monitor (I guess it includes 1 GHz CPU and 1 GB of RAM). Linux will run nicely on it. FreeDOS needs Intel/AMD inside.

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