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A brief history of the Raspberry Pi

First released in 2012, the first Raspberry Pi featured a 700 MHz single core processor and 256 MB of RAM. The Raspberry Pi 2 was released in February of 2015 with a 900 MHz quad core processor and 1 GB of RAM. Released in February of 2016, the Raspberry Pi 3 increased the processor speed to 1.2 GHz. This model was also the first one to include wireless LAN and Bluetooth.

Here is an image of a Raspberry Pi 3 B (2015):

This version of the Raspberry Pi features the following parts:

Four USB 2 ports
A LAN port
A 3.5 mm composite video and audio jack
An HDMI port for video and audio
An OTG USB port (which we ...

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