[…] RPi website is carrying a great story about one of the early boards which was bought on eBay for nearly £1000. […]

You guys(f&m) rule!

I have questions about the future. How many boards will you be able to produce per month?
And in what intervals is broadcom releasing new chips in that price range?

How cool is that?! :) And I really do think that one day we will be able to point to that machine and say, “This changed things”.

That’s a fantastic gesture, really nice to see.

In Beta and already writing history… Isn’t that great :-) I am so glad my brother pointed me to this project. We are already decided on or first simple project. A remote for the thermostat of the heating system at my home. I’ll b able to switch on the heating system before I drive home via the Internet.

Wow that is a feel good story if ever I heard one. Epic charity.

Wow! That’s awesome. Be sure to buy the chap(ess) a pint from me. I’ll pay you back, promise!

Very generous donation. I hope this device is a great success.

Wow. It is a surprise! A big happy surprise!
Someone is very, very generous :O

That’s great, this project is great, it’s ALL great.

Great news! Thanks go out to the generous donor.

What a jolly good chap. Mr Anonymous I salute you!

Just how much more warmth and fuzziness can this project produce? Fantastic news and a great example of where (hopefully) this project will lead…

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That is so lovely. Thank you whoever you are.

Can we have a step list of what is needed so the r-pi start the production and then the selling and the current working step?

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This is great news! I keep checking out the eBay site, and am delighted that you are raising so much money.

I’m soooooo tempted to start bidding on #1, but sadly while I can afford over $5000 for the Pi, I can’t afford the ensuing divorce!

Very gratuitous of this unknown person. However, it is we, the people, who must turn the Raspberry Pi into a true museum piece. Our seemingly infinite creativity must come up with simple yet eye-catching DIY projects and programs which will get the attention of youngsters and elders! By providing the necessary knowledge, motivation and inspiration, it is we who can help put the producer back into the consumer. This way, hopefully stopping the yet continues downward spiral into seeking spiritual satisfaction in merely consuming..

Seriously, salute to this great gentleman/madam who donated the sum to the Raspi foundation (by bidding) and the device to the computing museum.

Jason Fitzpatrick, director of the Museum: “We will be purchasing a number of the Raspberry Pis to take out for school visits and help promote the programming in schools initiative – something we very strongly believe in.”

I kind of like Mr. Firzpatrick :) my sort of guy :) as I said in my previous comments I’m really excited about educational potential of these for kids.

And now considering your device is already in the museum you should keep up with expectations :) which I know it’s tough but certainly you can do it.

Got nostalgic, also excited and started dreaming :) and I searched to see what BASICs are available on linux. Python is great but I don’t know why I think for a kid BASIC is something else (maybe because that was my first encounter, the WOW moment, with computers and programming. I still remember the moment as if it was yesterday (it was 26 years ago!!!) when with my parents we went for a visit to a neighbor’s place and there I saw this black box on a table in front of the TV, being 12 and shy of asking the neighbor himself, I asked my dad to ask him what the *thing* was :) and he said “oh! that’s my new toy, it’s a computer (it was a ZX Spectrum) let me show you …. he turned on the device, he glanced at a booklet, typed a few lines in seconds (I remember max 4 lines) and all of a sudden the TV screen was full of vibrant beautiful colors scrolling up the screen … I guess the Border was changing colors too!!! … for me it was like WOW! HE COMMANDS THE TV SCREEN!!!! AMAZING!!! … before that moment the things shown on tv screen was something beyond grasp, in monopoly of some serious looking grownups reading news … *they* could command the TV what to show … but now it was full of vibrant beautiful colors, the way I would like a TV screen to be!!!!! …. it’s needless to say that the day after I persuaded my parents to buy one :P … and the poor neighbor, I guess he wished he had never shown it to me, because I would run downstairs as soon as he got back from work (tired, at 7pm, 8pm) and I would bombard him with questions, the poor guy taught me the coordinates, drawing lines, loops and so on …. I remember one of the booklets or the user guide had a Cartesian coordinate like grid printed in one of the first pages and he taught me using that… I have wonderful memories …. I also remember the little printed basic code I found on the door with a scotch tape, when I was leaving home to go to school with a basic program starting with line 0 :) and the anticipation of him coming back from work to teach me how he does that magic :) …. and then Commodore 64 and then Amiga 500 … to be honest I guess it kept me off trouble in my teenage years too :) because I had the tendency to have much older friends and to go out with them riding bikes (motorcycles) and drink alcohol, they would get in fights … but at 16 those stuff was not interesting to me anymore … those were fun but really hacking C64’s assembly code was more exciting …. anyways …

Oh by the way, dreaming and searching I came across this which kind of reminded me of the good old days, [this is the result of less than 5 minutes browsing so neither I have tried it nor recommend it, just saw some screen shots, but it looked nostalgic to me]: http://basic256.org/index_en

By the way is there any simple single task operating system, any kind of environment like those of Sinclair or Commodore out there that kids can feel more in control of things, this is also important, to tell the truth jumping into linux world and even getting to know it is intimidating for me even now! let alone a kid :) … as far as it boots up from an SD card I guess it should be possible … damn things have gotten too complicated, not fun anymore [as they used to be!!!] multi threaded, multi core, multi user, multi task, layers upon layers, you can’t exactly know what’s going on inside …. damn I miss the simplicity of freezing a c64 program, tinkering with the assembly code and then unfreezing it :) … good old days …. the world of computers would have gone the way it’s gone and for the good of course, but this minor point if addressed, then computer programming will be fun again for everyone.

All the best to you guys and I really hope you won’t go astray from the major path (I understand the more the excitement in different applications the better, but there is one application which I really hope won’t be forgotten)

This is totally awesome! I am glad that someone had the thought to purchase and donate one of the beta boards to a museum. It is a perfect place to hold these boards. I could probably afford a normal Raspberry purchase for donation to a museum, but not one of these betas at auction. Excellent work!

Fantastic! I’m sure you’ll let us know ASAP anyway, but I can’t resist the urge to ask: any news on final production, as in when orders will be accepted?

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AWESOME!!

And now for the million dollar question; will it be released to everyone (the cheaper ones for $25/35) as soon the Ebay bidding is over? :D

That’s fantastic news. I hope the museum have it on display and running some sort of program that shows off the PI rather than just have it being shown for size. This is excellent news and really nice to hear of such charity.

Just awesome… thank you mr(s) Anonymous! btw thank you all, by putting so much time and effort in making this project (what i believe to be) a huge succes!

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This is great news for the museum (I’m one of their volunteers). I can’t wait to have a go on it the next time I see Jason. We really appreciate the kind donation by this anonymous person.

i want one so bad!!!!!!!!!
cant wait….
when will be time 2 buy one or 2 or 3 ….???

Very cool to have someone buy it and then donate it to the museum. Cant wait to get my hands on these and convince school districts to use them.

Awesome! My boss sent me Link to RaspPi now I’m hooked!

This was a very impressive and thoughtful donation. Surprising???..no….very thoughtful.
Impressive too that Director Fitzpatrick mentions that the Museum will be purchasing
a number of ‘Pies’ to carry forward the educational purposes of The Raspberry Charity. It just keeps growing !!!!!

I really did want to be one of the lucky 10 who would own a Beta board, I did try bidding £1500.00 on boards #04 and #03 (given that #07, #06 and #05 went for around a grand each) but alas there are people with less sense and more money than me! I am very pleased for the Foundation that these auctions have been such a great success. Guess I’ll just need to be patient and buy a production model when they come out.

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By my count, boards 1-10 brought in 16,336 GBP (that’s over $25K for those of us west of the pond). Great job, guys!

When can I buy one. Are you planning on doing a pre order as I can’t be the only one prepared to pay now so it arrives though the post ASAP.

I’m glad a first-run Raspberry Pi is going to a museum and I’m very glad the foundation is receiving a considerable amount of money for it. In my opinion though, I’m slightly disappointed that the museum isn’t Bletchley. Overall, It would be very nice to house the whole history of British Computing in one location nationally, rather than several independent sites. The impact would be much greater.

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Could the likes of me make Raspberry Pi? I know which is the hot end of a soldering iron. Or maybe add the big bits to finish one off.