£80 laptop for children in developing countries

I read about a project to build a $100 (£50) laptop for children in developing countries, the non profit company will start making a $175 laptop with the aim to reduce the price to $100 over time. Its current price is $175, and it will be able to run Windows [possibly a version of XP costing $3 (£1.50)] in addition to its home-grown, open-source interface [Linux].

I hope the technology being developed in these project will become available to us to :)


Full info $100 laptop:
http://www.abcmoney.co.uk/news/26200762858.htm

Official web page for $100 laptop:
http://laptop.org/

Bill Gates to offer Windows for $3
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=13&articleId=9017126&intsrc=hm_topic

Can we look at BBC B Micro?

One of the best things about my job is the people you meet, in the PC Surgery this week a client asked if we could look at a BBC B Micro, unfortunately this is outside the scope of the PC Surgery, but we had long talk and a nostalgic trip to the 80's, I used a BBC Micro when I was in school, the client, now retired, was a maths and computer tutor, he even taught maths to one of our volunteers in school. It goes to show what a small world it is!

Link to the wiki for the BBC Micro:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro

First Post from PC Surgery

Hi all, this is my first post from the PC Surgery @ BPP Development Trust in the ARC Swansea.