In 1984, 40 years ago, the Tandy 1000 was released by Tandy Corporation and based on IBM’s PCjr, which essentially fit most of the computer parts into the keyboard. The Tandy 1000 was successful in the consumer electronics market and spawned countless models until its eventual discontinuation in 1993.

It shares most of the same internal components as the Raspberry Pi 5, but with a keyboard shell and improved heatsink — all for $90. The Pi 500 is equipped with a 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU and comes with 8GB of RAM.

Raspberry Pi has introduced its own take on desktop organization. The computer-in-a-keyboard Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor are a perfect c