[9fans] NEC building Raspberry Pi 3s into its displays

[9fans] NEC building Raspberry Pi 3s into its displays

[Jim Robinson]

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Interesting, I wonder if this could let someone use one
as a plan 9 terminal:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nec-raspberry-pi-3/

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Re: [9fans] NEC building Raspberry Pi 3s into its displays

[Richard Miller]

Actually it's a rpi compute module (not a pi3) - for more accurate
description see http://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/compute-module-nec-display-near-you
The displays are 40 - 98 inch so probably not what you want on your desk.

Whether plan 9 could run on it depends on NEC documenting the
peripherals on their proprietary carrier board that the compute
module plugs into.

Re: [9fans] NEC building Raspberry Pi 3s into its displays

[James A. Robinson]

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Ah, that's too bad.  I suppose there's nothing to prevent
someone from getting a VESA mount enclosure and
just bolting onto the back of a monitor of their choice,
but it'd have been kind of neat to just buy a monitor
w/ rpi like you can pick up an imac. :)

On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 2:14 AM Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:

> Actually it's a rpi compute module (not a pi3) - for more accurate
> description see
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/compute-module-nec-display-near-you
> The displays are 40 - 98 inch so probably not what you want on your desk.
>
> Whether plan 9 could run on it depends on NEC documenting the
> peripherals on their proprietary carrier board that the compute
> module plugs into.
>
>
>

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Re: [9fans] NEC building Raspberry Pi 3s into its displays

[Steven Stallion]

Funny you mention that - my terminal downstairs is exactly that. It's
an rpi in a VESA enclosure mounted to the back of a lenovo monitor.
Highly recommended!

On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 8:19 AM, James A. Robinson <jimr@highwire.org> wrote:
> Ah, that's too bad.  I suppose there's nothing to prevent
> someone from getting a VESA mount enclosure and
> just bolting onto the back of a monitor of their choice,
> but it'd have been kind of neat to just buy a monitor
> w/ rpi like you can pick up an imac. :)
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 2:14 AM Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
>>
>> Actually it's a rpi compute module (not a pi3) - for more accurate
>> description see
>> http://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/compute-module-nec-display-near-you
>> The displays are 40 - 98 inch so probably not what you want on your desk.
>>
>> Whether plan 9 could run on it depends on NEC documenting the
>> peripherals on their proprietary carrier board that the compute
>> module plugs into.
>>
>>
>

Re: [9fans] NEC building Raspberry Pi 3s into its displays

[Michael Kockmeyer]

I'm seeing that the PI is getting lot's of attention here on 9fans.

I use a Fujitsu thin client as terminal. These (and other vendors) can
be bought on ebay extremly cheaply (half the price of a PI or cheaper),
have nice case, Gigabit ethernet, enough USB ports, decent cpu power,
replaceable and upgradable ram and a PCI slot.

On 15.10.2016 04:15, Jim Robinson wrote:
> Interesting, I wonder if this could let someone use one
> as a plan 9 terminal:
> http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nec-raspberry-pi-3/
> 

Re: [9fans] NEC building Raspberry Pi 3s into its displays

[James A. Robinson]

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Good point, thank you.  The reason I keep talking about the RPi
is that I know it's (mostly) supported and I can buy it from a reseller
that I (mostly) trust. :)

I was looking at putting together a system for a file server, and I've
come to the conclusion that I'll have to build it myself, based on what
has been written here and online about what is supported.  If I could
have just purchased a specific model of computer pre-built, I would
have done that.  20 years ago it was fun to build my own plan 9 cluster
from parts I assembled, these days I'm not as into that as I used to be!

Jim

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 8:56 AM Michael Kockmeyer <
Michael.kockmeyer@rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> I'm seeing that the PI is getting lot's of attention here on 9fans.
>
> I use a Fujitsu thin client as terminal. These (and other vendors) can
> be bought on ebay extremly cheaply (half the price of a PI or cheaper),
> have nice case, Gigabit ethernet, enough USB ports, decent cpu power,
> replaceable and upgradable ram and a PCI slot.
>

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