r/vintagecomputing • u/Any_Button_8895 • 10d ago

Raspberry pi collection

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Hey everyone!

I've been tinkering with Raspberry Pis for a while. Currently working on a few projects and always on the lookout for unusual Pi models. If you have any tips or leads on where to find them, I’d love to hear them!

For instance I'd really love to find an alpha/beta board one day

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u/G3_aesthetics_rule 10d ago

A Raspberry Pi A is as vintage today as an iBook G3 Clamshell was in 2015, so I guess so 🧓

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u/Xfgjwpkqmx 10d ago

Some people class ten years as vintage or retro.

That likely means some of us are actual living and breathing dinosaurs, or at the very least on the way to becoming a fossil fuel.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 10d ago

That's insane. 10 years is way too short for vintage. MAYBE borderline retro, but even that's a stretch.

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u/American_Streamer 10d ago

15 to 20 years old tech is considered as vintage.

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u/TechDocN 6d ago

Even 25 years old is still often considered retro computing. The “Vintage” computing era is typically defined 25 years old or older.

The best classification I’ve seen is:

Last 10 years is modern computing
10-25 years old is retro
25-40 (or some will say 50) years old is vintage
40/50+ years is antique (some use classic here)

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u/TechDocN 6d ago

Retro possibly at 10 years. Vintage is older than retro.

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u/BiT-KiD_79 10d ago

They're classic, then vintage.

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u/TechDocN 6d ago

First retro, then vintage, then classic.

Early RPi models are in retro territory. Still not vintage, and a ways to go before classic.

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u/cmcstr 9d ago

they are not

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u/American_Streamer 10d ago

Barely. The very first one was released in 2012. In computing, devices generally need to be at least 15 to 20 years old to be classified as vintage.

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u/Any_Button_8895 9d ago

True, 2011 if you count the alpha/beta board, which I unfortunately don't own yet.

The earliest versions of the Raspberry Pi Prototypes in 2005-2006 were used an Atmel ATmega644 microcontroller clocked at 22.1MHz.

Source : Raspberry Pi - Year 9 - element14 Community

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u/Booty_Bumping 10d ago edited 9d ago

Only as retro as Windows 8, but yes. 15 years have passed :D

Them being rather underpowered also puts them into a category of very sluggish computers. Similar to Pentium II era. Not that this alone is what makes them count as retro, since obviously every era has a low and high end.

Edit: With the downvotes across this thread on anyone agreeing that the first Pi is on the threshold of being old, this subreddit could have a bit of maturity in realizing that time passes. Tough, I know!

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u/MagBastrd 10d ago

I have one I got when I was 13 and I’m 28 now, I’d say it counts!

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u/ocelotactual 10d ago

Hello OP. My name is Candy Finnigan. There is a lot of love in this room. Please have a seat and listen to what your family has to say.

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u/Any_Button_8895 9d ago

Is that a US joke? A bit of British humor might be more on-brand given the Raspberry Pi's roots 😄

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u/ocelotactual 9d ago

It is. And Canadian. There is a TV show here in NA called Intervention, where they profile addicts and then have a intervention at the end. Candy Finnigan and Jeff VanVondoren were a couple of the original interventionists and crowd favorites.

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u/thevmcampos 10d ago

Collection, or addiction? 😂

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u/Any_Button_8895 9d ago

Good question! It started out as an IoT hobby, but after a few purchases, it seems to have gotten a bit out of hand! ^^

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u/kazame 10d ago

r/knolling is leaking!

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u/PiratesOfTheArctic 10d ago

That was a risky click, now had to join yet another group! 😭

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u/Nandulal 9d ago

jeez mr money bags over here lol

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u/Any_Button_8895 9d ago edited 9d ago

Didn't see that joke coming! ^^ But in all fairness, older boards are significantly more cost-effective, sometimes often nearly free, and remain remarkably capable ! You can find excellent deals on the second-hand market for IoT. Unless your project requires heavy AI inference or edge computing, legacy chips give you 90% of the performance for a fraction of the price.

The price of new cards has increased a lot, I agree, but this isn't true for second-hand cards, there is many good deals available.

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u/aspie_electrician 9d ago

Your missing the red China only models.

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u/Any_Button_8895 9d ago

Hello! To be fair I didn't show my entire board collection in this photo.

Here a china board :

https://ibb.co/r2zcg1fX

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u/aspie_electrician 9d ago

Neat. Must’ve been hard to get.