Re: Just got a Pi1B. What can you actually do with it these days?

On 11/06/2025 12:06, Gordon Henderson wrote:

I have a few (dozen) of these - 1B and 1B+ (40 pin GPIO header). I run an
older Debian Jessie on them for Linux and am experimenting with Devuan,
but I also have my own bare-metal framework under which I run either my
own RTB Basic (a modern basic where line numbers are optional) which
supports high resolution graphics but not (yet) sound.

Talking of bare metal; you can run Circuit Python on the Pi without the OS. After all the original 1B is closer in memory footprint and performance to the Pico than it is to the 5B.
---druck