I've got a Chip also (traded a friend an old calculator for it). It seems pretty neat. I've not had a chance to do much with it. I need to re-flash it before I do anything as it suffers one of the pre-release bugs causing it to not start up sometimes. oops!
Compared to a Pi (pi zero in particular, since it's closest feature-wise), it's nice that it's so self contained, but it is TWICE THE PRICE (hehe.. even though the price difference is less than a starbucks latte. ) The lack of SD card support is a definite negative, but it does have Wifi, and bluetooth built in which is a definite plus. Both could support expansion I could see either device, with a RS232 level converter to a DB25 being a nice replacement for the NADS box or other rom boxen. It could act like a wifi telnet console to use the T as a wireless shell access device, you could put a bunch of roms on there and use tpdd type stuff... It has a lot of potential. On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Willard Goosey <[email protected]> wrote: > A friend gave the CHIP to me, he's probably a backer or whatever. I wasn't > even aware that they're not generally available yet. :-( > > It's running Debian Linux, and I don't know enough about the hardware of > either to know how similar it is to the Pi. I also don't know it any other > OS's are available. > > Willard > > Sent from Samsung tablet > -- Scott Lawrence [email protected]
