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          Tiny Technology, (sdf.org), 09/06/2018
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When I was a kid, my mother would drive me around to all of 
the antique stores. I absolutely loved looking at the old 
trinkets and treasures, and was especially fond of the tiny 
collectibles. I eventually bought up a bunch of tiny things, 
though I can't recall exactly what they were now.

Tiny technology has always been fascinating to me as well. 
The PDA days were a heyday for me, which I enjoyed quite 
thoroughly (thanks ebay.)  I even had that Fossil Palm 
PDA watch, before smart watches were cool. The modern 
"Mobile," I will admit, hasn't been quite as fun. I don't 
know what was lost, but something was lost, and it never 
felt that interesting. Ah well, you win some, you lose 
some.

The Raspberry Pi is exceptional I recall before it came out, 
everyone thought it would be vaporware. A $25 computer! Yeah 
right! Wow, were we ever wrong. Before the Pi, I purchased a 
Parallax "Basic Stamp," and programmed up a little project 
with it. The Pi has it beat in so many ways, though they are 
different...

Anyway, that's a lot to simply say that I've unpacked my Pi3 
from storage. This is the one I used to use for my home 
gopher server and telnet BBS. It's got a 64GB SD, and it 
used to have a 1TB external drive, but I haven't bothered 
with that yet. The thing that makes it even more fun for me, 
and my memories of tiny collectibles, is the little 3.5" TFT 
display (they crappy backup-camera type) and the itty-bitty 
keyboard/mouse combo that I have with it. All together it 
looks just like a miniature computer- how fun for me.

Maybe I'm odd, but I suppose that's OK.

Now, I just have to figure out what to do with the thing. 
I'm not sure I need or want to host a gopher server (I have 
5 phlogs in gopher space already, dang it, and that's enough 
phlogs for anybody.)

The point is, it's unpacked and setup and working. Let the 
fun commence.