[BITList] Raspberry Pi becomes best selling British computer | Technology | The Guardian

[Michael Feltham]

> http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/18/raspberry-pi-becomes-best-selling-british-computer <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/18/raspberry-pi-becomes-best-selling-british-computer>
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> Raspberry Pi becomes best selling British computer
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> Over 5m Raspberry Pis have been sold since its inception in 2012 <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/feb/29/raspberry-pi-computer-sale-british>, making it the best selling British computer ever, according to the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
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> The cheap, credit-card sized computer sold 2m units by the end of November 2013, 3m by the summer of 2014 and over 4m by the end of 2014.
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> Demand for the basic computer was first driven by hobbyists <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/08/petbot-kickstarter-raspberry-pi-open-source-dogs-cats>, but is now bought by educational institutions across the world <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/26/syria-children-learn-to-code-raspberry-pi> and the industrial sector, in which the Raspberry Pi has been used to power various machines and control systems.
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> The original Raspberry Pi went through three iterations, adding more memory and shrinking the size of the board. The Foundation launched a follow up, the Raspberry Pi 2 <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/02/raspberry-pi-2-support-free-windows-10>, which is six times as fast as the first version this year, hoping to create a more capable general purpose computer for the same sub-$35 cost.
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> Rivals to the best selling British computer of all time include the 5m-selling Sinclair ZX Spectrum from the 80s and the BBC Micro, which sold only 1.5m units and was discontinued in 1994.
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> The Raspberry Pi <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/raspberry-pi> looks set to eclipse records set in the 1980s, with demand for both the new Pi 2 and the original remaining strong three years on.
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