Pi 400: Return of the 80s Home Computer

The 80s is considered the golden era of the home computer, a time when computing components were small enough to fit inside the living room of a house, and versatile enough to work on as well as play games. It was a wonderful time to experience, and the Pi Foundation has kept that feeling alive with the Pi 400.

Released in November 2020, and while the UK and most of the world was still in lockdown, the Raspberry Pi 400 came at a time when we were beginning to feel like there was no end to the pandemic and the restrictions it brought. Initial thoughts were that the Pi 400 was a new small-board computer, in a similar vein to the Pi 4 and its predecessors. However, we were quite wrong. The Pi 400 is a very different beast to that of its siblings. Rather than the naked board we’ve seen in the past, the Pi 400 came as a complete keyboard package, with the Pi’s familiar ports lined up along the backplate of the keyboard. This in itself was remarkably reminiscent of the home microcomputers of the 80s,…

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